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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By almost any measure, EU and China (only meaningful comparables) are far more rotten to the core than the US. So unclear what people mean
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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.

