"If you were good at politics we would live [in] the society you want." That's a sick burn tbh My sentiment about libertarianism is similar: It's never gonna win because people (who aren't already libertarians) basically don't like it. C'est la vie.https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1059895926939095041 …
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
It seems to completely escape almost everyone but a handful of nutjobs like Bannon and some particularly insightful communists that the most politically influential bodies in a modern state do not include "the voters."
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Replying to @Rationalbot
I mean, that's the Manufacturing Consent thesis, which is pretty mainstream. The United States government and it's continuation processes are very complex and segmented into different parts. I don't think you can make a sweeping gesture and say "Group X controls all of this"
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @Rationalbot
I do think the political aristocracy / various strata of elites have more influence than the voting populace, especially insofar as they direct the votes of those beneath them, but voter-led upsets happen. Look at 2016.
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
No, my thesis is not that voters are led like sheep by the wave of a magical mind control staff. There are critical bureaucratic bodies, like DoD, where decision making and personnel acquisition is almost completely independent from any influence of democratic votes.
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Replying to @Rationalbot @sonyaellenmann
this is it. there are no candidates you are permitted to vote for (they don't even show up on ballots) that are seriously committed to scaling back the military-industrial complex.
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Replying to @danlistensto @sonyaellenmann
United States cannot scale back the complex, it can only make it more efficient (it is, currently, a clusterfuck). Comes with being an imperial power.
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imperial power is not really compatible with democracy. thought we learned this approximately 2000 years ago. America has retained more of the democratic pageantry than most empires do though.
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Replying to @danlistensto @sonyaellenmann
Democracy is not compatible with a state that's larger than a big village, let alone one where codified laws take armies of highly trained priest-scribes to decipher and interpret.
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