Peter Temin — When Political Parties Subvert Democracy, Things Get Ugly Fast

The world provides plenty of grim examples of what happens when democratic systems are trampled.

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When Political Parties Subvert Democracy, Things Get Ugly Fast
Peter Temin | Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT, and co-author of The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It (Princeton University Press, 2013)

Political dysfunction resulting in dystopia is becoming a major problem for the US and is alarming the rest of the world, which has depended on a stable US since WWII. This is resulting in geopolitical and geo-strategic shifts already as other countries realize that they have to reduce reliance on the US as global leader. It's also a poke in the eye to constitutional representative democracy after the American model as the Great Experiment begins to fail.