Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires. Bonus points if you can convince groups with mutually exclusive goals that you'll deliver for them - the coalition of "people who disagree about everything" is hard to assemble, but it sure is large!
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@pluralistic Of course my family was more "libertarian" but always voted republican because they were "against" "big government". They didn't believe in hierarchies, they were just tricked into thinking that the conservatives would reduce government hierarchy. There there was the abortion issue which they voted on based on bad science and arguments that it was murder. When I found out about 5 years ago that most conservatives are in fact hierarchical it broke my brain. No one I knew that voted republican thought that way in my small town, or at least they never said it out loud.
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"Libertarians" are hierarchical, they just prefer to whitewash their hierarchality as "meritocracy." While meritocracy is probably a lesser evil than nepotism, I insist on distrusting anything that ends in -ocracy. Except (maybe) democracy.
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