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This is the most depressing thing on my mental radar right now. Feels like I’m back at square one given I grew up in an Indian state (Bihar) where elections were a joke, “booth capturing” by gangsters was rampant, and mafia orgs of various sorts determined who go elected.
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At least things like gerrymandering and the electoral college have a veneer of procedural legitimacy to them. You may not like those things but at least they’re part of a legal scheme you can consent to. This is a kind of next level lawlessness taking root.
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I no longer trust native-born Americans’ sense of what’s going on. Exceptionalism is too deeply ingrained in your psyches for you to recognize how *not* unprecedented this is.
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You think you’re headed for an impossible state and surely something will stop it. The rest of the world sees reversion to the global historical mean 😖 This might be the least exceptional chapter in American history.
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The only thing exceptional about American politics is really the patronizing contempt Americans being to the idea of recognizing non-American histories as meaningful precedents to learn from and act on. It’s a political version of NIH syndrome. Not Invented Here.
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It’s been asked before, but if the president dismantles the USPS, what can anyone actually do about it? Forget the normie centrists - nobody expects much from them anyways. I’m talking about “the resistance” What can they do? Boycott? Right. What can anyone realistically do?
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