Awareness
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer quote:
ORIGINAL: Kirata quote:
ORIGINAL: PeonForHer God. I'm beginning to think that the political culture in the USA is utterly and completely fucked. Was there a time when you didn't? K. Yes, there was. There was a centrist consensus of sorts, once. Things chugged along, not very satisfactorily, but never so bad as to cause an outright explosion. There was a certain consensus that there was a political class that people assumed knew what it was doing. It's gone now. There's something similar going on this side of the pond, too - and, just as in the USA, it seems, nobody knows where the hell it's all going to end up. Decades of broken promises, on both sides of the left/right divide, have come to a head. I sometimes wonder if, every now and then, a civil war just must happen. The institutions of democracy-in-practice have kept that at bay for quite a long time ... but maybe the ones we have are simply not up to the job any more. Too much unresolved bitterness has built up. So basically, you try and make people believe that you're a "political scientist" but are absolutely clueless when a well-established pattern repeats itself. Amazing.
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