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Re:America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by hindsightbias on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:38AM (#25098577)
Nixon, Reagan, W. Bush, Trump is not a curve towards competence. Nixon got stuff done. Reagan started a movement but bumbled around until Nancy took charge and hired professional help. W started and lost two wars. Populists never know how to govern, so the next tiktok, parlor, youtube star isn’t going to know how to move the levers any better and their entourage is going to be a clown show.

They can win because the American populace is shallow and irrational, but running off the rails is not a competence badge.

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Re:America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by oyra on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:46AM (#25098618)
> Nixon, Reagan, W. Bush, Trump is not a curve towards competence.

and Biden is ? Oh, boy....

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Re:America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by jb775 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:15PM (#25126339)
The mindset of people like him is to mindlessly elect politicians into office as long as the mass media (a.k.a. modern propaganda owned by a few individuals) tells them to.

Who cares if the politician is historically a scumbag who has voted for/against things that he currently claims to care about...as long as the media and the liberal mob says so, he's our guy! Forget critical thinking and making decisions for ourselves, who needs that when the media can decide for us!

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