An unquestioned consensus in this election is that 'the establishment' is cancerously sick. But I can't find any meaningful measure of this
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... and by establishment I don't mean the GOP, but the general apparatus of state/governance in the US (as opposed to say EU, China)
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Have you been following Greece, Italy, the aging problem in general, debt levels relative to growth prospects?
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I think your problem is that you're measuring relative to other actually existing states as opposed to hypothetical utopian states
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@The_Lagrangian Dammit. I knew I was making a serious methodological error somewhere.
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establishment party politics at least makes my stomach turn. I think that is true for many people.
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I guess the trend matters. Corruption perceptions improving in China, declining in US: tradingeconomics.com/china/corrupti, tradingeconomics.com/united-states/
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while harder to craft consensus on the improvements, rotten often used based on obvious possible improvements not better real examples
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not like most Americans think much about the rest of the world to compare.
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