
Downstream: How To Predict the Future w/ Peter Turchin
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The Center Is Elite Preferences
The center is elite preferences. The democratic party was the party of working people back during the New Deal times, and for a long time after that. But now, it's not. It's the party of 10% as Tom Frank would characterize them. And so, what they are reflecting, the center preferences of the ruling class who are, again, the coalition of the wealth holders and the top degree holders. That's why it is misleading to call it a center. So, analytically, it's a very strong argument so that the United States is not a democracy.
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