| The increasing political polarization we’re seeing today isn’t anything new. It’s similar to what we saw in the 1930s, and it’s even something Plato wrote about a couple thousand years ago. In democracies, people vote for their interests. And since people generally want more, politicians want to give it to them — and are willing to go into debt to make that happen. Ultimately, things reach a breaking point where discipline is needed. People want somebody to get control of the government and make it work well. But there are two versions as to who that somebody is. In the 1930s, this led to the rise of fascism (for people who wanted a strong leader to lead a command economy) and communism (for people who wanted to redistribute opportunities). Inevitably, these two clashing visions lead to fights. |
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