I'm beginning to think that reactionary politics (from any faction, not just right wingers) is the norm in America and that trying to argue for reason and moderation is a lost cause in this country
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trying to map policy preferences to a point in political space is a fool's errand. people aren't consistent (w.r.t ideological platforms) with their preferences AND preference falsification for social status positioning is the norm.
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our systems of meaning-making and value formation are just broken. have entered terminal states of disintegration. we'll either invent new ones or we'll perish. no civilization long-run survives losing it's systems of meaning-making.
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and in the short term we suffer the consequences. we have sham democracy and intractable fake "debates" between petty criminal malefactors as a kind of political theater instead of actually finding consensus solutions to our serious problems.
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the "elected" government is so dysfunctional that private corporations are now taking it on themselves to enforce political agendas on the masses. this is the worst form of government I can think of that doesn't include brown-shirts (or equivalent)
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the political agendas of those corporations are non-sensical and incoherent. grasping in the dark to find some purchase where the conflicting priorities of profit maximization, fake corporate "social responsibility", and Managerialism overlap
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they're also implemented by amateurs who have no sense of the responsibility of wielding power, almost no accountability (and certainly not democratic accountability), and usually lacking even in relevant domain knowledge
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