if you think this, you think the United States won’t survive, at least not as a democracy. a country cannot remain as structurally misgoverned as we now are (under either party, though more flamboyantly under MAGA) and survive as a meaningful democracy. 1/

arguably this is just a historical statement rather than a speculative one. 2/

under contemporary communications tech and nationalized politics, the FPTP countries (including the UK and Canada but most egregiously the US) are not functioning democracies (where they once may have been when politics was more local). 3/

(if you haven’t read it, i recommend @leedrutman.bsky.social’s book on this stuff.) bookshop.org/p/books/brea... /fin