The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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Hmm is this the state hollowing out or metastasizing tho Maybe both
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Part of it is that society went bugnuts back in the late 60's/early 70's and "tough on crime" got a major boost, resulting in sentencing getting WAY harsher in the 80's and continuing to date with few reversals.
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the timing isn't quite right on that. some kind of latency between first stirrings of backlash and implementation of backlash policies?
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Think it accelerated with a few moral panics in the 80s/90s. Crack babies, super predators, something something
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never forget that Bill and Hillary Clinton made their political careers by wearing a D pin while implementing backlash policies that ruined millions of lives
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Yep. Sadly it's not even in the top three most disgusting things about him, but it's easily in the top ten. A hypocrite of the highest order and an enemy to the poor and minorities that would make a Klansman weep in envy.
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top three 1. He's a serial rapist 2. He's a habitual liar 3. He's a petty grifter
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all three of those apply to Trump as well btw (as if that even needed repeating). Nixon was at least not a rapist.
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I was curious how that line would look in comparison to pop over time. Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/population …pic.twitter.com/NyV4QFLMUz
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this one is normalized to number incarcerated per 100,000 the rate grew at a rapid pacepic.twitter.com/8JPlCg4bvs
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this is the normalized incarceration rate for State prisons (above chart is Federal). it's a much larger population actually, but the growth rate slowed down a lot beginning around 2000pic.twitter.com/fDHfiOIszz
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be interesting to see this age-adjusted old folks just dont go to prison so often and the countrys getting kinda grey
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greyness is not uniformly distributed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Ages …pic.twitter.com/nZP0U0oxZz
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