The American elite, while divided to a degree by partisanship and diverging culturally from the rest of America, are bound by ties of self congratulation and narcissistic self-regard.
No political class has a monopoly on being either good or evil, and no class culture is uniquely corrupting or elevating. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Powerlessness corrupts, and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
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well...that insight seems central to the whole "what's actually good about us" project. liberal democracy is built around checks and balances and devolution of authority.
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Well if that is the meaning you inferred from my tweet then you are doing some projection regarding the ruled that wasn’t there.
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My first reply to you was a joke

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