Tech and AI is acting like there will totalitarian rule and right wing will rule forever. Maybe so, but we aren't there yet. Setting themselves up to reap the whirlwind when another party takes power.
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Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and let them off with a light scolding.
One of the defining aspects of low-corruption societies is that they don’t have the loyalty based systems and instead have rule of law. But now we see how the loyalty systems come about: it isn’t the politician who makes it; it’s the populace.
Given a single deviation from the low-corruption norm, they demand loyalty test based operation and would rather move towards high-corruption.
A low-corruption society is therefore an unstable equilibrium. The moment a norm deviation occurs, the people desire greater norm deviation.