Present Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson joins us to interrupt down New York Occasions columnist Bret “Bedbug” Stephens’s article “The …
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Present Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson joins us to interrupt down New York Occasions columnist Bret “Bedbug” Stephens’s article “The …
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Man, is short-termism about Presidential elections just self-evident, or what?
I like bens opinions but God man, get rid of all the extra words.
So democracy as advertised is supposed to be able to bring into being a world much superior to that which people would otherwise have to settle for. But in fact the opposite is the case. Nation states cause one disaster after another the limiting case being the murder of millions in war. You know its a hopeless case when you watch tonight's panel, a group of thoughtful, knowledgeable, and principled Leftists, throw up its hands and admit that they almost hope Trump is re-elected. But isn't such resignation a symptom, or perhaps rather a sign, that the real solution is to finally admit that the great experiment in democracy / government / states / political authorities – call it what you will – has failed ? Has not the real question become how to dismantle political authority and transition to the pure consumer controlled society ?
imagine enacting mass scale destruction of hydrological infrastructure in north korea
then turning around and blaming their government for the resulting famine
while blockading the state and anyone who attempts to trade with them.
That's it in chat replay? At least Jemt was commenting. His observations are pretty uniformly astute.