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Nicholas Weininger's avatar

Lyons' is yet another critique of the open society that makes two typical and fundamental errors:

-- treating nations as natural communities when in fact they are made-up, arbitrary, fake nonsense

-- treating life under the "strong gods" as something other than the impoverished, repressive, hideous horror that the premodern world in fact was

There are real and serious problems with open, globalized modernity and you describe many of them well. But one cannot take seriously those who valorize fake history and fake community.

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forumposter123@protonmail.com's avatar

We are moving to Florida this summer. It seems pretty clear to me that Red America is building all the time. They build houses. The build high speed rail. They get internal migrants. Red America is going to gain an entire swing state from Blue America in the next census alone.

Red America also achieved perhaps one of the most important breakthroughs, universal school choice. That was a big reason for our move to Florida. Red America is taking serious steps to rein in its managerial class.

The federal government is an insurance company backed by an army. It doesn't build anything. It writes checks and occasionally gets in peoples way. State and local governments build things, when they want to and the Feds don't stop them.

The role of Trump is to destroy the federal government. To keep it from interfering with Red America.

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