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Jiang links bureaucratization to democratic decline because people's voice and capacity to influence politics are shrinking.
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Political Power
Senate equality is formal rather than practical: those with highest prestige sit at the front, speak first, set the agenda, and control debate.
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He predicts a pension crisis will divert money from schooling, public schooling, healthcare, and almost everywhere else because pensioners are politically powerful and socially protected.
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There is almost nothing politically effective to do because baby boomers dominate Western political, financial, and cultural systems while also being the parents people love and honor.
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Senate equality is formal rather than practical: those with highest prestige sit at the front, speak first, set the agenda, and control debate.
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Jiang argues Haley would accept the vice presidency because it puts her one step away from the presidency and positions her to run as the Republican nominee four years later.
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He argues that dispensationalist premillennialists are a controversial Christian minority, but they are unusually organized and fanatical, and such groups tend to achieve objectives.
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"So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it..."
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"participate in politics, the capacity for people to influence politics has declined rapidly these past 10 years. Okay? So we are living in a..."
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"All right. Yeah. So what happened after the rich pension elders died? Like what about their money?"
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"Okay. All right. That's a good question. Okay? So as you can see from these charts eventually there'll be a pension crisis where there..."
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"Do you want to deny healthcare and pension to your grandparents? So everyone will be for this. There's nothing we can do about it...."
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"They want to save the Pax Americana. They want to feel virtuous, powerful, and strong, okay? And they don't care if they have to..."
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"they appoint Pompey, who again, is considered the greatest general in Rome at this point, at this point, to counter Caesar. Okay? And this..."
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"Everyone back here are not allowed to say anything. Okay? Because you go in turns. The people who sit at the front are the..."
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"...no ideas. They have no principles. All they care about is... Political power, right? So why would Nikki Haley agree to be vice president?..."
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"you think this is evil what's a problem with believing that there's a plan in the Bible what would that be anti -christian okay..."
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"these groups the dispensation list millenials premillennial are the most organized and they're the most fanatical they really believe that this is true okay..."
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"...production. So that's the first problem. The corruption. Second problem is political power. Polarization. So when empires are in decline they usually split up..."
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