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11. There's a line of thinking that suggests the reason we're in so much trouble...

Sun Aug 13, 2023, 02:17 AM

Aug 2023

...is because a lot of the Cold War politics never actually got resolved at the end of the Cold War. The paranoia and xenophobia was turned inward when there was no longer a monolithic external enemy. That's around the time that I first began to notice some worrying trends in our politics. The Republicans' obsession with Kulturkampf became really destructive with the end of the Cold War, when far too many Americans started looking around for internal enemies to replace external ones.

Add to that an increasingly "meaner" capitalism that developed with the fall of the USSR, and it's not too surprising that we're in this situation.

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