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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Exactly. Your archaic anti-democratic system concentrates too much power to very few people whose elections get cosmic-level significance. Your political culture reveres the supposed wisdom of your founding daddies as if political thought peaked in the late 1700s. This structurally produces chaotic outcomes and an inability to adapt. Mind you it’s not a matter of codifying the conventions Trump broke. It’s about rethinking what you mean by democracy. Hardening the conventions does not solve the problem. Since American political thought loves comparisons to ancient Rome: hardening the conventions is what Sulla did. It did not save the Republic, it just ossified its inability to reform and defined the rules of the antirepublican game that people like Pompey and Caesar had to play in the road to Empire.

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  • You are framing opposition to an apartheid regime responsible for genocide as rooted in irrational hatred and hate mongering. That’s weird.

    If somehow a coalition involving Arab parties end up in power, one should expect some concrete steps towards dismantling apartheid and holding genocide perpetrators accountable. That would be a fantastic set of steps. That’s also extremely unlikely. If somehow some Arab Israeli politicians get coopted into a political arrangement that perpetuates the genocidal apartheid regime, then of course they would deserve all the scorn that would be coming their way. None of this is irrational hatemongering. It’s politics around measurable outcomes.

    That said, I find it highly unlikely that Arab Israeli parties will end up in any kind of stable government. It would be red meat for the far right and there seems to exist no political will in the Israeli electorate to seek any reasonable political resolution.