It’s a politics forum of political junkies discussing nuanced political perspectives and news articles. I wouldn’t jump into a forum on car mechanics and make some generic statements about the how combustion makes the motor go around.
It’s a basic naivety of the mechanisms around how politics work, that isn’t objectively wrong (if the world only worked according to flow charts from Wikipedia), but completely misses the point in the reality that isn’t how power works. Reality is subterfuge. Reality is real politik. Reality is posturing and gesturing and floating test balloons and doing basically nothing. Reality is the tail wagging the dog so that you can claim the dog wags the tail.
The study of politics is the study of identifying what has been communicated without it being said, and how that impacts power structures.
Sorry, my psychic powers to be able to know what you are thinking when you don’t mean what you write have been greatly overstated.
It’s a politics forum of political junkies discussing nuanced political perspectives and news articles. I wouldn’t jump into a forum on car mechanics and make some generic statements about the how combustion makes the motor go around.
It’s a basic naivety of the mechanisms around how politics work, that isn’t objectively wrong (if the world only worked according to flow charts from Wikipedia), but completely misses the point in the reality that isn’t how power works. Reality is subterfuge. Reality is real politik. Reality is posturing and gesturing and floating test balloons and doing basically nothing. Reality is the tail wagging the dog so that you can claim the dog wags the tail.
The study of politics is the study of identifying what has been communicated without it being said, and how that impacts power structures.