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Comment by toomuchtodo

3 days ago

After midterms and potential Congressional regime change.

doubtful if you ask me, most (from both sides) are in cahoots

If you haven't seen my recommendation (since we cross paths here frequently and have general alignment), I think you would really like...

What Happened to Liberal Democracy - Daron Acemoglu

The Tyranny of Meritocracy - Michael Sandel

I'm still working my way through them, but they both have amazing analyses of how we got to where we are, and ideas for how we get out of it

  • > most (from both sides) are in cahoots

    With Musk? He’s giving hundreds of millions to cost half of them their jobs.

    > ideas for how we get out of it

    What’s the best idea out of the lot?

    • Not sure it's the best, but the first idea is for the liberals/democrats to acknowledge their complicity in causing this. What they are offering will not fix things.

      I would place myself center-left and a believer in Liberal Democracy, not to be confused with liberals or democrats

      re: cahoots, I mean more generally the corporate-government corruption we see everywhere, the 1%

      I'm making a throwback sign for the protest this weekend

      "Occupy Oligarchy" - something about 1% vs 99%, still ideating

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