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Any nation made up of human beings is going to be flawed. The way forward is via incremental change and compromise. Forcing societal change does not, and never has, worked.

>Forcing societal change does not, and never has

It looks like Musk was able to buy Twitter and, together with the other media magnates, force a massive societal change in USA. At least from the outside looking in, before this year USA seemed to be a democracy (with some factions doing their best to subvert that) and the Constitution seemed to be a widely supported basis for that democracy. But now, the Constitution has been torn to shreds and seemingly with massive support from people who will call sand wet and water dry if Trump tells them communists don't agree with it and that his clever uncle told him so.

All you’re seeing now is what’s been happening behind closed doors since the founding of this country.
The only thing that consistently “works” is the collective scientific process of hypothesis testing

Everything else is fantasy coping mechanisms to maintain in/out group distance so that people feel temporal “safety”

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