1. the right is basically toast as a consequence of Moldbug's blue government usurping the tacit functions of every institution that was vaguely conservative this has been a long-running process but the new deal basically ended the right pretty much for good epistemic status: ?
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2. what's happening right now is probably a symptom of some much, much deeper trends and issues I have no idea what they are, the phenomenon is massively overdetermined but i doubt its about whatever shit ppl say its about
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3. feels like adulthood is on the decline and thats probably a bad sign
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4. republicans and democrats are both terrified theyre not gonna exist in ten years and the fear is reasonable on both sides neither party deserves to really nevertheless what comes next will probably be worse
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Replying to @eigenrobot
a really nice part of democratic government is forebearance--that even if you lose power, you still have a stake in the future of whatever you have power over. That's certainly eroding
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Replying to @Joithead1 @eigenrobot
Politics is basically being treated as a winner-take-all contest, or (worse) a war of elimination
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Replying to @earlofwallst @Joithead1
yeah overall I would say left seems more likely to win such a contest and also more likely to implode the minute it gets power
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Replying to @eigenrobot @earlofwallst
one thing that's making desperation the common perspective is that the left owns the cultural square, while the right (at least for now) maneuvers in the institutional square better
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Replying to @Joithead1 @earlofwallst
institutions are all leftist now excepting cops and maybe the military everything else is governed from HR
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Replying to @eigenrobot @earlofwallst
point very much taken, but imagine the institutional power of the left if there was no gerrymandering, no voter ID laws, the D's got their promised seat on SCOTUS, and Mitch McConnell didn't exist
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ifs defeated the rebels at Gettysburg
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