All discussions of “threats to Western democracy” that point to non-Western forces (Russian bots & fake FB accounts, Chinese international ambitions, etc) distract attention from the fact that the greatest threats by far to western democracies are almost entirely endogenous
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Precisely. This drives me mad. I called this out yesterday:https://twitter.com/bernajurema/status/1006476395839705088?s=21 …
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Bernardo Jurema 🌹 @bernajurema
It must be so comforting psychologically, not to mention intellectually facile and self-serving, for elite types to blame all the ills of Western societies on the Official Enemy du jour whilst ignoring all the its endogenous factors https://twitter.com/steveschmidtses/status/1005750300962164736 …
12:23 PM - 13 Jun 2018
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