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Why Power Is Getting Woke
- PaulHoule 5y agoThis book https://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-Dictatorship-Wintrobe/dp/0521794498 https://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-Dictatorship-Wintro... expounds a framework in which politicians have a certain amount of resources to spend on preserving the system (e.g. spending on legitimacy, welfare, police and military) vs resources they can spend on their own priorities. Addressing inequality involves real money, as does improving security. "Culture war" offerings on the left and right are free or very low cost so they are popular with politicians.
- quattrofan 5y agoCritical Race Theory is nonsense and a cancer on steroids. As a white male I'm now evil by default, and if not by my actions I am by what an ancestor did 200 years ago. What this all does it make the term racist meaningless, but the believers just can't see that.