This is happening because there are no counter-hegemonic incentives. The Right has to start punishing people too, or nothing will change.
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*You* are going right-populist on us today? Deep breaths, let the sound of helicopters subside. We don't fight the left at their own game.
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That very much depends upon how "their own game" is defined. ...
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... If it means "setting up incentive structures that drive directed ideological change" then I probably have to dissent from your thesis.
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Consumer boycotts depend on media control. They're less dominant recently, but it's still their territory.
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"Changing incentive structures" means: all research becomes independent private companies funded through offshore VC. Tech payroll shrinks.
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Medium-term: geographic exit. 20th-century microstates came out of cold-war compromises (Singapore, Taiwan)
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New cold war means new opportunities. Romania? Ukraine? Poland? Probably the next Singapore will surprise all of us.
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A collapse of the EU, torn between Brexit and Visegrad would throw up all sorts of options.
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Moldova has awesome Eurovision song contest entries. A good sign.
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