I've finally realized that American left culture has basically become mental illness, or possibly some form of religious hysteria. The right was that way for years, but now the left has succumbed. I fear this may be environmental toxicity. Like Rome was done in by lead poisoning
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Replying to @leashless
Not convinced you can delimit the political culture. I haven't seen a sane US political position in a long time. There is always dangerous confusion.
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Replying to @Triquetrea @leashless
it has limits. it hasn't yet infiltrated every aspect of day-to-day life or business. if your view is from a distance filtered through the media it looks worse than it is. it's bad, but the media is terminal.
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Oh I know. I have plenty of politically engaged US friends who don't have particularly weird positions. The problem is on a different level: they don't have anything to organize behind. Every big position is co-opted, ruinous or both.
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Replying to @Triquetrea @leashless
haven't read it yet but the premise of this one is that the higher up you go the crazier it is and you only find your sane, pragmatic positions on the ground levelhttps://www.amazon.com/Our-Towns-000-Mile-Journey-America/dp/1101871849 …
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a lot of ink already spilled about elite overproduction and political corruption and the constitutional crisis and corporatocracy and all of that. the older I get the more sympathetic I get to Thomas Jefferson's view of democratic society. he was on to something.
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