Nega-Brutus
Holding people accountable needs to be part of the solution. Not just legally, but also ethically. And not just in a puntive fashion. And not just for Trump-like people, but progressives too, but for different reasons.
The first problem is that Trump is constantly floating along the line of 'uh ok I guess' and 'tf impeach and remove this *******' where we cant hold him accountable until he directly incites a riot and causes 5 deaths. There are simply no strong mechanisms to punish presidents.
Parallel to that, the second problem is that we need a strong theory of tangible harm before we can devise legitimate accountability mechanisms against Trump-like figures and rhetoricians. Like Jacob said, a lot of people were turned off by the media narratives about Trump often feeling like nothing burgers, but I don't blame the media for not writing theses on the potential harm of the things Trump says and does when even academics can't pin point things convincingly enough, apparently. All the media can do is a bit of implicit virtue signaling. Plus, in the end, they're at least in part profit driven, which affects how they report, that being, just as sensational as they can without lying to get clicks.
And we probably need a stronger theory to call out progressives where they fail rhetorically or fail to negotiate or understand problems. I'm saying all of this from the comfort of my bed btw, and I know that a lot of things are being tried and that **** is way more difficult.
What I personally really, really like as a suggestion from Yascha Mounck, is politicians spending way more time with their constituents, so as to: 1. expose politicians to the problems of every day people so they can understand and feel them better and 2. inspire confidence in people in that their representative is just a person trying to represent them, and not a lizard corporate globalist person.
Politicians start singing a different tune when they spend all their time around experts, lobbyists and other politicians and you just start noticing a divergence between politicians and their constituents, which is really unattractive to people. Having people understand each others rationale and problems so as to avoid miscommunications and mischaracterizations is important, imo.
The first problem is that Trump is constantly floating along the line of 'uh ok I guess' and 'tf impeach and remove this *******' where we cant hold him accountable until he directly incites a riot and causes 5 deaths. There are simply no strong mechanisms to punish presidents.
Parallel to that, the second problem is that we need a strong theory of tangible harm before we can devise legitimate accountability mechanisms against Trump-like figures and rhetoricians. Like Jacob said, a lot of people were turned off by the media narratives about Trump often feeling like nothing burgers, but I don't blame the media for not writing theses on the potential harm of the things Trump says and does when even academics can't pin point things convincingly enough, apparently. All the media can do is a bit of implicit virtue signaling. Plus, in the end, they're at least in part profit driven, which affects how they report, that being, just as sensational as they can without lying to get clicks.
And we probably need a stronger theory to call out progressives where they fail rhetorically or fail to negotiate or understand problems. I'm saying all of this from the comfort of my bed btw, and I know that a lot of things are being tried and that **** is way more difficult.
What I personally really, really like as a suggestion from Yascha Mounck, is politicians spending way more time with their constituents, so as to: 1. expose politicians to the problems of every day people so they can understand and feel them better and 2. inspire confidence in people in that their representative is just a person trying to represent them, and not a lizard corporate globalist person.
Politicians start singing a different tune when they spend all their time around experts, lobbyists and other politicians and you just start noticing a divergence between politicians and their constituents, which is really unattractive to people. Having people understand each others rationale and problems so as to avoid miscommunications and mischaracterizations is important, imo.
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