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> The political system must be all encompassing. Everything must be within and subject to the political system

Why? This is de facto what we have in America. It’s lead to neo-Peronism. It doesn’t work.

The next Democrat candidate could recapitulate Trump’s January 6th pardons by promising to pardon anyone who burns down Teslas. If the rest of their platform is tenable, and if the Tesla fires are a few years in the past, the electorate might be fine with that. (Or not. Either way, the damage gets done.)

Do that for long enough and the public will demand someone outside the political system to rule over it. If you leave the final word on corruption to the political system, the system will evolve an autocratic element that polices itself.




> The next Democrat candidate could recapitulate Trump’s January 6th pardons by promising to pardon anyone who burns down Teslas.

I hope you are not comparing those things - one trying to overthrow democracy and killed people, the other vandalism that damages cars.


> hope you are not comparing those things - one trying to overthrow democracy and killed people, the other vandalism that damages cars

One can compare things without equating them. In this case, yes, I am comparing them. (In the end, both have—to date—been nothing more than destruction of property and trespassing. Getting killed being an idiot isn’t the same as killing people.)




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