erry day im out here grateful that the people who set up my government were maximally autistic about it
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its actually really impressive how well it worked usually when people come up with a new form of something de novo from theory it sucks real hard. eg communism
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and thats just because new things are hard to make and require testing. especially if you try to apply them socially new models are likely to fail I legit have way more sympathy for marx than anyone today who still thinks seizing the means of production is a really clever idea
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my usual test of whether a science has any claim to Expert status is whether it can build something or fix something out of theory and you know what im willing to accept the founders as knowing something about government skeptical political science has moved forward since tho
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Presidential democracy is inferior to parliamentary democracy. Fixed terms of office are bad. Making re-election impossible encourages corruption. Only one of those is on the US founders but there are lots of countries with US like constitutions, none with similar success.
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not a lot of countries with our culture either tho knamean
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