What does governance look like when truth is tribal, deliberation is dead, and accountability is optional? That’s not democracy. It’s managed chaos, until it becomes enforced order.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
This is how democracy dies, not through one coup, but through systematic erosion of its foundations. The VDA model shows how MAGA doesn’t just exploit crisis. It manufactures it, then calls itself the cure.
@skyview.social please unroll another bull's-eye on-target thread by @eliothiggins.bsky.social on the assault on Deliberation, Accountability, on this group's fanatical viral decoupling from reality & stand against Democracy.
It doesn't help that malicious foreign actors with considerable budgets are amplifying and manipulating the movement, automated tools and AI make it trivial to do in overwhelming volume. The better the LLMs become the more difficult it wil be to sift it out.
They take advantage of disordered discourse, but there's multiple agents involved, which different drivers motivating their creation and spread of disordered information. I detail it in my presentation.
The erosion of Democracy is the result of the slipping of the vulgus into a deeper ignorance. Nietzsche was right to lament the intellectual failure of Western Civ.. Democracy fails because the public doesn't understand its ideological foundation. For example, how many know the meaning of Capitals?
Sounds like the operating model of high control religious groups/cults. Members of such groups also *follow* MAGA, and in fact lead it — Mike Johnson, Heritage Foundation... We don’t hear much about this in MSM as of yet, nor from the authoritarian experts. A lot of info avail online.
Comments
Total banger, amazing view.
https://brill.com/display/book/9789004678002/BP000007.xml