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- MY ideal democratic nominee is someone picked out of a lottery of people who have been totally shat on by the meritocracy system and are considered total failures.
- The way you vote is largely determined by your experience of the economic golden period between 1945–1970 (namely, whether you experienced it or not).
- The way you vote is largely determined by the way you experienced the long period of economic deregulation between 1970–2008 (the long decoupling of state and market).
- The way you vote is largely determined by the way you experienced the chaos between 2008–2018 (a chaos whose consequences are far from understood).
- I used to think, because I hadn’t read enough history, that America was leaning into fascism in 2016; what I realize now, is that Americans are far from fascism: we’re much more prone to passively destroy ourselves than actively destroy ourselves. The next holocaust won’t come from the hands of a government, not directly, it will come from rising seas, scorched forests (famine, drought), from anti-biotic resistant bacteria, from waves of suicides.
- Republicans always seem to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat because they are anthropologists, rather than sociologists, like Democrats — they follow the logic of the tribe, really, the heart, while Democrats follow the logic of the objective, the mind. Pretending that politics, that voters, that anybody, is rational, is a deadly mistake.
