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Feral Finster's avatar

The only check on power is power.

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jamenta's avatar

And the two party electoral system in the US is dead as a door nail. The entire POTUS election cycle is a mockery of an open democracy.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

Why are you using Soros watchwords like "open" when the electoral system was never intended to be such, and accordingly is not? If you were half the mythsmith your Jung copypasta would suggest, you would see that elections are a mythical construct in pursuit of particular social objects. Either you are a shitty mythsmith who is incompetent to do the work, or you are a fucking perpetrator shitlib trying to preserve the problem. Which is it?

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Feral Finster's avatar

What do you mean. "dead"?

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jamenta's avatar

As in - anyone who the oligarchs really don't want as POTUS will end up dead if they even happen to manage to win the primaries.

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Feral Finster's avatar

From the oligarch perspective, from the perspective of keeping and wielding power, the system is working jimdandy.

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jamenta's avatar

What is "jimdandy" ?

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Feral Finster's avatar

"Jim dandy" = "peachy" "ducky" "just great".

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

No, this is slave talk. Power is the

1) hidden

2) potential for

3) action.

All three legs need to be present for sociological power to exist. Overt potential for action is not power (it's force). Covert actual action is not power (it's action). Hidden potential for things not action is not power (it's mystery).

Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action. Caitlin seems to be banking on exposure and demystification.

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Feral Finster's avatar

"Power can be dissolved by exposure, by forcing a dud, or by defusing action."

This also is the use of power. What Caitlyn is doing is trying to get people to question the legitimacy of the existing system. Take away legitimacy, and Biden's power extends no further than his reach.

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