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 Speculation: If Ds had been in power rough consensus would exist today that GD was caused by loose money and bloated government.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Outsideness alternative: those who were able to crystallise the opposite narrative would have been at least able to blur that conclusion
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