The Janx Devil on Nostr: npub1ev6ll…wnh08 I have a theory about why. It has to do with the collapse of any ...
npub1ev6llh68eggtr2k2wzc0jgstw9pzx57ra9e4l6gu5wsddnnwa0ms4wnh08 (npub1ev6…nh08) I have a theory about why.
It has to do with the collapse of any political opposition to the dominant party at general election time. That forces all factional disputes to be resolved entirely within private clubs and not in public. And the thing about systems like that, where the only opposition comes from inside the club, is that the people who thrive in that environment aren’t suited to contested struggle— they’re gonna be cops at heart. Every policy problem is about maintaining the security of the existing order, keeping down the peasant uprisings, suppressing external threats, et cetera.
These sorts of systems usually collapse when one of the factions in the ruling coalition decides that it no longer needs to negotiate with the others and sets about to subvert the systems that would otherwise constrain them.
It has to do with the collapse of any political opposition to the dominant party at general election time. That forces all factional disputes to be resolved entirely within private clubs and not in public. And the thing about systems like that, where the only opposition comes from inside the club, is that the people who thrive in that environment aren’t suited to contested struggle— they’re gonna be cops at heart. Every policy problem is about maintaining the security of the existing order, keeping down the peasant uprisings, suppressing external threats, et cetera.
These sorts of systems usually collapse when one of the factions in the ruling coalition decides that it no longer needs to negotiate with the others and sets about to subvert the systems that would otherwise constrain them.