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trad society was meritocratic for this reason!

results above correct ideology or moralizing!

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

I think this is the wrong way to go about things, as it seems to have political capture baked right in. We will end up with some form of 'only loyal Soviet citizens with a thorough understanding of Marxist economic principles and our place in Socialist history get the vote and only Party members get to be the government'. And I don't see how to avoid this, when the world is already well supplied with people who want precisely this. Will the USA get voters who have a grounding in what traditionally was taught as American history? or the 1619 project's history? What if you think with Henry Ford that both sorts are just bunk? The current problems facing a divided electorate is not citizen ignorance, but institutional untruthfulness and untrustworthiness. There is little point in becoming 'an informed citizen' when you no longer believe the sources which purport to inform you.

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