41 sats \ 4 replies \ @didiplaywell 10 Aug \ on: Republicans declare war on the American economy econ
The very important thing to read from this attitude from the republican party is that if they take this postures, undiscernible from the democrat party, it's solely because the Overton Window commands them to, and thus, it's because people themselves have lost all sense on governance and economy, and focus solely on "manners" and "morals", the reason the debate has degraded from "republicanism vs socialists" to "conservatives and liberals" (both equally socialists).
The exact same thing happened here, and Milei was the first one to bring that up and make it evident, calling our republican faction "leftists with manners".
This is them showing their true statist colors and lust for power. Americans may value freedom to do what they want, but they also have a serious problem with wanting to dictate what everyone else can do.
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The current position of the Overton Window may for sure be coincident with what bureaucrats want the state to be, but should it shift you will see politicians, the car sellers, immediately shift their speeches too, for it will be politically profitable. Bureaucrats will still not support it, but politicians can rely on the power of public support and will sell to people what people demands. We were able to see that in real time happening here: as Milei shifted the Overton Window by miles, it was so much that even the socialists had to start endorsing free markets in their speeches. Even if it was solely by word, it does shows how much public opinion weighs on what politicians and bureaucrats can or can not do.
What you say about yankee americans applies equally anywhere, anytime. It's not less of a truth here. It's so easy to lose perception of implications when you accept actions that seem to occur far away. That effect is one of many items listed in the "The Inevitability of Socialism" text I'm working on, and making that more evident is part of the parallel work I'm working on.
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When Republicans are out of power, they sound like Milei. It's when they sense they may actually get to wield it that their tone changes.
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That's due to a common syndrome in politics, so much it haves a name: the infamous Baglini's Theorem
Politicians' convictions are inversely proportional to their proximity to power.
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