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A comment on Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019). Parent comment

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by ahartmetz on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:11AM (#29839269)
If more than 40% of US citizens believe the IMO blindingly obvious lie that the last election was stolen, there is a real problem. A society needs trust to work. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/america-bide...
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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by hallway_monitor on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:24AM (#29841023)
A society does need trust. The US is losing that trust which is worrying. The almost-majority who doubt election integrity is a symptom of that, not the cause.

When it's 60% who have doubts, is it still a "blindingly obvious lie"? What about 80%?

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by t-3 on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:39AM (#29839586)
> A society needs trust to work.

Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other.

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:55AM (#29839766)
> Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other

Most people don't need to trust each other. The elites certainly do, at the very least, to respect the peaceful transfer of power. Democracies have, by design, lots of elites, so the coördination problem becomes (intentionally) more difficult.

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