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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Replying to @eigenrobot @hikikomorphism
I don't think it was always like this, or at least not to this degree. not that everything was great in the past but that the particular form of hollowing out of the state seems to have begun in the 80s and accelerated continuously for the last ~35 years.
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incarcerated population corroborates this pretty elegantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States …pic.twitter.com/h3S59wShg7
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Replying to @danlistensto @hikikomorphism
Hmm is this the state hollowing out or metastasizing tho Maybe both
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Replying to @eigenrobot @hikikomorphism
does increasing incarcerated population represent growth of state power? yes, it does. however it is state power wielded against its own population. metastatizing seems like a good way to describe that. hollowing out is descriptive too but in a different sense.
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the core of a liberal democratic state is supposed to be the consent of the governed. the implicit social contract is that the state works for the people, to uphold their interests and promote the general welfare. if they don't do this the core has become hollow.
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