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by ScarletEmerald 1586 days ago
The core problem American society is facing is bad faith participants. When a significant number of participants in a society/organization/government are operating with the goal of destabilizing or destroying the system there is no clever rules hack that will prevent them from doing damage.
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onos 1586 days ago
Is this something that is not always present? If so, why are we experiencing it now?
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d110af5ccf 1585 days ago
Polarization. It's a race to the bottom. My opponent behaves deceptively so I guess I will to. As far as I understand this sort of political climate has also existed in the past in the US.

> > a significant number of participants in a society/organization/government are operating with the goal of destabilizing or destroying the system

Note that this bit from GP would be readily agreed with by both the far left and far right in the US. However they would each give completely different examples of things that were destabilizing (according to them).

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lariati 1585 days ago
Of course but people just like to puppet nonsense and are ignorant of our own history.

This for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_b...

Or what about the vice president shooting one of the founding fathers dead over what was basically a twitter war for that time? Lol yea we are more extreme and divided now. Give me a break.

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