• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Conservatives tend to acknowledge cracks in the system earlier than liberals, as their movement is more openly and aggressively allowed to agitate its base.

    Liberals have to cling to the pinker "We live in the best of all possible worlds!" denialist state until some conservative government kicks over another pillar of the domestic polity. And then the only remedy is to return to "normalcy" of liberal governance without ever repairing the damage.

    Its just another example of the political ratchet that forces policy forever towards that Murray Rothbard dream.