I made up a term: dark straussian
Regular straussians think it’s okay to lie to people for their own good because they’re mostly stupid
Dark straussians think it’s okay to take advantage of people because they’re mostly suckers
Neither has much use for consent-of-governed
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One of the things that really surprised me over the last couple of years was learning how many of my friends fall into the former camp.
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I mean, I don’t think that’s necessarily fair. On foreign policy you can make a good argument that the average voter doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. But letting people be stupid is better than being anti-democratic.
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