Democracy Killed the Soviets, and Authoritarianism Is Killing America

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22 pointsmathgenius3 comments

Stupidity and self interest are killing America, not authoritarianism.

Stupidity, self-interest, and self-loathing.

Every day I see the mainstream news scream about war, death, famine, poverty, etc. etc. etc. - when it's clearly not as bad as they're portraying it. People eat it up because it's all they see on the internet now.

> when it's clearly not as bad as they're portraying it

by any global or historic standards, none of it in the US qualifies for the apocalyptic media portrayals

this is what happens when your media is all rich, urbane, etc.

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