"We will publicize to thousands your address, phone number, and maybe your kid's schools if you cross us" is a wonderful new addition there from the last decade. The walker recount was the harbinger
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My diagnosis is much darker. We fundamentally misunderstood what a “moral” leader is and then structured the system to incentives that type of person gaining power.
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We got it into our heads that people who care about social standing in money must be bad people. Some interest in our power with people who dont care. This means we only get saints, or people who only care about power and literally nothing else.
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"competently compete"
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Still waiting for AOC to take that million dollar Netflix / book deal
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I think less about competence than motivation. Politics disproportionately rewards egoism. It's like what I've taken to calling the lawyer conundrum: does everyone hate lawyers because they're very bad, or very GOOD at what they do
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Eigen 2024
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They’re not necessarily conscious of the repugnance, they’ve restructured the game to advantageously play to specific of their own personality traits, which are often themselves repugnant, especially in the public square.
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I could easily argue the opposite hypothesis, the entire liberal democratic project works to improve the quality of political elites above its natural tendency towards Saddam Hussein levels
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