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Elliot Ackerman on Writing, Military Service, and Polarization | People Do Well When They Can

The Daily Stoic

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What's the Difference Between a Majority and a Minority?

i think there's been a real balkanisation ofor our culture, and that's that's no good. You're a country ruled by public opinion, so if you don't have a consensus in public opinion doesn't mean it has to be one way or another. And a real majority wrigt, not a fornoto, not what republicans are trying to do - effectively rule as a majority from a smallt minority. It's like you just have this like, flip floppy tyranny of like, forty seven over 53, then it's 53 over forty seven, and everyone else is miserable. There has to be more,. Like le e, when i was a kid,

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