At the large scale, the political history of democracies is totally dominated by popular correlation-causation errors. ...
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... It's musical chairs with the business cycle, most clearly. A party that finds itself standing (in power) when the music stops is toast.
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... A couple of interesting examples here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pavlostsimas/a-greek-tragedy-in-a-span_b_9201214.html …
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The Left being able to pin the Great Depression on the Republicans destroyed what remained of constitutional government. ...
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... It was perhaps the single greatest purely political disaster in the history of the Anglosphere. (Learn from it.)
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@Outsideness what's the counterfactual if Democrats had happened to be in power. Maybe R's would have attacked them from the left?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@anomalyuk We know at least, in the UK, that the welfare state wasn't going to be created by the Tories (at least, not in the 1940s). ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@anomalyuk ... Churchill quite rightly denounced it as a fascist abomination.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness ...but by the 50's he was expanding it. When the time comes...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness My thoughts on this question: http://anomalyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/who-rules.html …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@Outsideness There are effects of electoral politics, but I think they are more chaotic than predictable
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