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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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.
model
Jiang invokes Peter Turchin's model of elite overproduction to argue that too many wealthy and famous actors are competing for too little political power, a pattern that tends toward civil war.
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Jiang says baby boomers are the dominant political bloc in the West because they are the largest demographic, hold the most wealth, and remain the most politically active.
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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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"...many people with wealth, with fame, but they don't have any political power. And the only way to guarantee their wealth and their fame..."
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"...the richest man in the world, he doesn't have that much political power. So he needs to be able to translate his wealth into..."
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"...points. The first point is the boomer generation have all the political power in the Western world because first of all, they're the largest..."
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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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