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Maximilien
@Praetorian27
Jun 18, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
I have said the USA could never win another world war. They are fat, poorly informed & incapable of change as the WW2 generation was. The corollary is the rich, who become entrained in a lifestyle of soft pleasures and refuse to sacrifice. #ethics #praxis #EvolutionaryPsychology
If people want to know what sacrifice is about, consider the siege of Leningrad during WW2: "By January 1944, when the Wehrmacht finally began to retreat, around 750,000 civilians had been deliberately starved to death." #History #Survival #Horror theguardian.com/books/2011/sep…
True horror: "Nevertheless, the Somme heralded a new age of atrocity and diminished individual responsibility for it. Politicians, generals and ideologues... were able to ignore the moral consequences of their work." #History #WW1 theguardian.com/books/2016/jul…

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Sep 26, 2020
Modern Liberal Democracy entails:
1. Effective participation
2. Voting equality
3. Enlightened understanding by the electorate
4. Control of the legislative agenda through voting
5. Inclusiveness

Does American democracy meet any or all of these criteria? #election2020 1/9
In a real democracy the person who wins the most votes wins. In America the EC/SCOTUS handed the election to GWB, in a nakedly partisan manner, then Trump. The Democrats had 16-yrs to rectify the situation, but did nothing, b/c impotence is their M.O. 2/9 nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opi…
Under Obama @TheDemocrats "share of seats in the United States Senate has fallen from 59 to 48. They’ve lost 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and 958 seats in state legislatures." How was that possible? 3/9 vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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Sep 16, 2020
#History provides us with the enormous opportunity as both individuals and society to learn and adapt. Take the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who was tasked at reviving a morally corrupt federal government, while tackling stagflation & global multiple conflicts. 1/4 #ClimateChange
From a new #biography on the 39th president: "Carter proposed investing in clean energy, imagining a U.S. independent of Arab oil. His constituents just wanted to know when the pumps would start flowing again." 2/4 #ClimateChange #BookReview ajc.com/life/jimmy-car…
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Liberal democracy is predicated on pluralism & effective participation. For example, in Europe, no one ever shrieks that your vote belongs to any faction. In fact, the Greens are a major party in Germany and France. Europe has PR & multi-round voting. #SusanSarandon 1/4
Would critics prefer these people not vote altogether? Did Democrats say Ross Perot couldn't run? Did any DP leader say Bloomberg -a Republican- had no right to run in DP primaries? Unless you live in a swing state, 3rd parties have no impact on the EC. 2/4 Image
The Democratic Party & GOP are right wing business parties, disinterested in progressive politics. There is no left wing party, despite the majority agreeing with left wing policies. The DP sandbagged @ewarren & crooked @BernieSanders (2x) to protect corporate interests. 3/4 Image
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