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384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration

The Realignment

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The Pro-Social Politics of the 1930s

I think everything you just articulated got to the difficult political dynamic, because I would say elites in the United States in the 1930s did a very pro-social and also long termish thing. They took the sacrifice in the short term, but yes, they in fact this was Franklin De Landaruzigold and his, you know, his group who articulated this. If you don't want to have a bullshit revolution here, be better. You have from below, you want to save the capitalist system by reforming it. And that's what they did, completely right.

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