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This is a good summary of how far gone the US is already. This country is radically different than it was 6 months ago, and it hasn't registered with the majori
by inverted_flag 1y ago
This is a good summary of how far gone the US is already. This country is radically different than it was 6 months ago, and it hasn't registered with the majority of the population yet.
- beardyw 1y agoAn interesting comment from a philosophical perspective. If the country is different from the majority of it's population - what is a "country"?
- disqard 1y agoWhen a cancer spreads throughout a body, many of the body's cells are drastically altered. Is it still the "same body"? Ship of Theseus, etc.
- cantrecallmypwd 1y agoYes and no. Internet "lawyers" will make arguments about how it must be or not be the case. Instead, a group of people together is more like a dynamic living organism that morphs into subsequent zeitgeists. There maybe apolitical structural/demographic reasons, circumstances, and/or infectious ideas that lead to major changes. Some are root causes and some are merely reflections. Or in this case, a memetic infection on top of sliding value changes (polarity, illiberalism, aggressive patriotism) changing the underlying values causing various symptoms. A country is a collection of people who share some iota of proximity, values, and/or views, although "Network Staters" and "Free Staters" would have you believe differently.