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> Setting themselves up to reap the whirlwind. Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and
by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> Setting themselves up to reap the whirlwind.
Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and let them off with a light scolding.
- zerosizedweasle 1y agoNah, not this time, they've gone way too far for that. I think Democrats will make a real big effort to make peace with the average GOP / Trump supporter, but not the elite enablers.
- oldpersonintx2 1y ago[dead]
- renewiltord 1y agoAmusing. The typical businessperson anywhere complies with whatever rules an admin requires in order to do their business. The typical politician wants to create a loyalty based system since that allows him to be a kingmaker. One of the defining aspects of low-corruption societies is that they don’t have the loyalty based systems and instead have rule of law. But now we see how the loyalty systems come about: it isn’t the politician who makes it; it’s the populace. Given a single deviation from the low-corruption norm, they demand loyalty test based operation and would rather move towards high-corruption. A low-corruption society is therefore an unstable equilibrium. The moment a norm deviation occurs, the people desire greater norm deviation.