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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I'm not sure I agree the right way to prevent the far right from subverting democracy is to subvert it first.
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Thats not at all what I'm saying.
My contention is that what we should be doing is coming up with well-reasoned, well thought-out plans to preserve social institutions both socially and fiscally.
What we have right now isn't working and its essentially a pendulum.
Institutional failures and poor planning create hardships on a populace and essentially turns their heads the other way to people who also have no plans or ideas to remedy those hardships other than blaming them on other people.
We have stop being populist Neanderthals and start properly thinking as a society and instead of reacting to issues as they pop up and playing 'whack-a-mole' with the symptoms actually sit down and make hard choices to solidify the foundations of our Democratic institutions.
Rather than..."these guys screwed this up, lets follow this guy instead because he knows they screwed it up but has no actual plan to fix things" like a bunch of dumbass lemmings.