If you've made it through 2018 and don't see the daily onslaught of Trumpian power consolidations and fuckery, it's either because your dishonest or choose not to or because you lack the background knowledge. I'll assume the latter. Here are some things to get you started.
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This book is a good recent to how people actually process and reexpress political information. Concisely: We're rationalizers not rational. https://www.amazon.com/Rationalizing-Cambridge-Studies-Political-Psychology/dp/052117614X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539260425&sr=8-1&keywords=rationalizing+voter …
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Dude. Trump is absolutely not decentralizing power. He’s consolidating it. Relentlessly.
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I’m boarding a flight now, but no set of facts would convince you anyway. That’s how belief systems work, the inhibit perception of evidence at odds with your coherent expectations. And libertarianism is very coherent — but only one one dimension.
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Contemporary parties are bad. There are compelling arguments which conclude this country's political system can never escape from the two-party structure -- it's like a stochastic gravity well. I don't think bidirectional anger is bad. There's a lot of bullshit.
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There is no comparison between Obama and Trump. The large scale, frantic mobilization against The later is an immune reaction as society tries to fight off late-stage septicemia.
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AfterObama’s inauguration, I started my internship at Cato. I protested Obama, as a libertarian. Then, cato hired me. I’m no longer a libertarian. But, I was sincere in my objections to him. You dont see those “facts” for lots of reasons. But the comparison is pure nonsense.
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I think it’s because some people live in reality and a lot of other people live parallel to it.
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Any passing familiarity with history.
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