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Re:The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Ow... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:53AM (#24376066)
Respectfully, politicians you don't like gaining power isn't evidence of the system buckling.

The other issues aren't exactly unconcerning, but I think we have to acknowledge that this is a quite peaceful time. For most of history, what we call "unrest" was the status quo, and there were in addition wars of open territorial conquest which are nearly extinct today.

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Re:The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Ow... by Ericson2314 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:30PM (#24379076)
If you believe:

- Continued urbanization is essential to growth as we know it

- Non-urban voters are less attuned to what cities need to grow

Then regardless of political ideology, our disticts + FPTP method of growing makes non-negligible growth of the real economy very difficult.

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