Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]
by sudosysgen on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:23AM
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The political opponent isn't the Overton Window.
It's the 2-party system and the ratchet effect.
No matter how the population feels on a particular issue, as long as the elites of both parties disagree, there is no way for it to be implemented. A wedge issue will be substituted and strategic voting will ensure compliance.
Then, the issue will be substituted in the public discourse with a choice between the status-quo and something even worse, or something marginaly better and something significantly worse.
In the end, there is no way to campaing as long as you have both political institutions against you.
In the United States, there is no statistically significant correlation between the sympathy of the "body politic", if you take that to be the mass of voters, and actual policy[0].
Put simply, your rationalization is a feel-good narrative. And that's not even considering media capture, manufactured consent, ideological indoctrination through cultural hegemony, etc...
It's the 2-party system and the ratchet effect.
No matter how the population feels on a particular issue, as long as the elites of both parties disagree, there is no way for it to be implemented. A wedge issue will be substituted and strategic voting will ensure compliance.
Then, the issue will be substituted in the public discourse with a choice between the status-quo and something even worse, or something marginaly better and something significantly worse.
In the end, there is no way to campaing as long as you have both political institutions against you.
In the United States, there is no statistically significant correlation between the sympathy of the "body politic", if you take that to be the mass of voters, and actual policy[0].
Put simply, your rationalization is a feel-good narrative. And that's not even considering media capture, manufactured consent, ideological indoctrination through cultural hegemony, etc...
[0]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...