I don't really believe there's much power here, though. Under normal conditions at least! Generally the production of G1s is pablum and even the food stuff--futile dumb output of dissenting G2s, a class of work in which this thread should be included--is pointedly ignored
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This is good because we are idiots
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When I said earlier that UMC *sets* norms I was wrong. They do at present but this is a strange departure from the norm. Historically, the Head of State set norms, with his August authority.
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Presidents really did used to have remarkable authority, in the less-than-a-command-more-than-a-suggestion Roman sense Adherence to norms was a prerequisite for office because one power accompanying that kind of authority is unparalleled ability to shift norms after inaugeration
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Clinton crushed IDpol for two decades when he condemned Sista Souljah and he was just a candidate Kennedy killed hats by not wearing a hat Reagan made capitalism so popular that the second highest-grossing film of 1984 told the story of three scientists starting a small busines
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Something very strange happened between 2001, when the Presidency was practically at its apex, and 2016. I don't quite understand what--polycausality??????--and maybe it even started with Nixon. But, the Presidency doesn't really seem to have this kind of influence anymore.
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Unlike past candidates, Trump didn't even try to make a show of adhering to norms And as President, he doesn't seem to have any power to influence them, at all. The Gentry are in open revolt and he's not well-positioned to break them to his will like Reagan or Bush.
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This thread is all over the place, I'm sorry but what did you expect after the original post
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Mmh, I guess sounds interesting, but you make it sound as if rule breaking was new. It isn’t, it’s been the name of the game since forever, sometimes with mundane consequences, sometimes with positive consequences and sometimes with cataclysmic consequences
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Imo what you’re describing is a) very America centric b) in a state of constant flux I dunno
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