Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 22, 2020Poll: Have the divergent Covid experiences of Asia and the West made you doubt the western liberal democratic model more than you did a year ago?No35.4%A little more35.9%A lot more17.1%Never believed in it11.5%624 votes·Final results18613
astrokiwi@mastodon.nz@astrokiwi·Nov 23, 2020Replying to @vgrHardly, last I looked local democracy was doing nicely here. American exceptionalism needs to sit down & have a hard look at itself tho113
astrokiwi@mastodon.nz@astrokiwi·Nov 23, 2020Replying to @vgrThings got a bit stress-tested on the last round, electorates proved pretty resilient to a number of currents both internal and external. We'll see1