“Russia and America’s charts have the same shape — a hump, not a wave — because they are both failing states. Neither one has a working politics, a functioning social contract, a prosperous economy, a media capable of checking elites, or elites who are interested in anything but looting and pillaging society. Another common factor, too, is a population split between one groups who’s apathetic about all that, and another who are such enthusiastic backers of the strongman, they don’t care if they sacrifice their lives to a virus for him.”
A Farmer's Almanac
“Russia and America’s charts have the same shape — a hump, not a wave — because they are both failing states. Neither one has a working politics, a functioning social contract, a prosperous economy, a media capable of checking elites, or elites who are interested in anything but looting and pillaging society. Another common factor, too, is a population split between one groups who’s apathetic about all that, and another who are such enthusiastic backers of the strongman, they don’t care if they sacrifice their lives to a virus for him.”
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