Partly Douglas Adams's Third Law of New Technology; Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Partly the refusal of Generation Boomer to let go of the cultura… (View Post)
He's probably right, though. Forty percent right-of-centre vote in one box wins in lots of places. Split it into two boxes, twenty-five and fifteen, and it wins in very few places. Substitute "l… (View Post)
The "victim of the evil dictator still worshipping the evil dictator" is a standard trope of that sort of dystopian fiction. It's a shock seeing it play out in real life, but it probably sh… (View Post)
If we're talking national government, yes. There is still a sufficiently independent news system to push back against top-tier politicians who deny reality too much. It's not perfect, but it's mostly… (View Post)