OFC we all know the answer to that one...

I just read the NYT article and... wow. I know Ross Douthat is a normie con to the letter, and NYT is an enemy source, but that was basically bunch of alt-right talking points wrapped up in palatable language.

On the other hand, if there were a catastrophic pandemic (which there's typically at least one or two or three every century), densely populated places like Africa would lose significantly more people than sparsely populated western countries

*oh no*

nani, ebola-chan noo

nobody knows what that motive is all about

it doesn't make sense in any form of economics

other than living with the assumption that the entire nation is gonna be the same with a whole new crowd of people around

Africa is far from being densely populated in many parts. In fact, as far as people go per square mile, Europe is incredibly dense.

Which only makes the threat of a disease from one of these Shithole countries worse

Oh, I was referring to if the population truly grows to such a high number

AH

I think he loosely referring to cities aka ground zero socialist hives

or that

They do lack the infrastructure to properly sanitize, so the effects would be terrible.

they lack the ingenuity to do much of anything on their own

most of INDIA doesn't the infrastructure to sanitize, most people in that nation don't even own a water-tap

And I heard that from the mouth of some of their social leaders

we have to drive the public or at least policy makers cast aside the myth of boasian anthropology in favor of a true racialist viewpoint set forth by Grant and Stoddard

also apparently Ross Douthat supports repealing the 17th Amendment (direct election of senators)

based and redpilled

How else would it be done? By electoral college on a state level?

Nomination or oligarchic selection I assume

I want a more elitist form of government, akin to the original American republic. A senate that can ignore the will of the common voter on occasion is important, or else we'll never fix issues like debt and healthcare

before it was state legislatures

house reps were elected by the state's population, but senators were elected by state legislatures

and of course, the voting population itself was pretty different too...

it's better than what we have now

which is direct election of both

I like it

There is still PR pressure from the public. Republican establishment types support the agenda now

>have awful shitty elite
>have had that since early 20th century
>has only been a matter of how bad they are
>wants a more elitist form of government

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oof

We can still b u l l y them

that's why I qualified my argument with the fact that the population was different

that would never work now, and it's good that populists are able to benefit from direct elections

Im pretty sure you get v& and shutdown if you try to bully them

populists' leveraging of direct elections is a reaction to a broken system

we're well past the point of managed, representative democracy, the way it was originally envisioned

but if we were still a serious country, I'd be more comfortable with a less directly-democratic system