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13 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
“I think I’m enough of a critic of the two major parties that I’d have to say yes for the most part, although I don’t know.”
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- 13 Aug 2025
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…If you could wave a magic wand and bring proportional representation to the United States at the national level, would you do it? I think I’m enough of a critic of the two major parties that I’d have to say yes for the most part, although I don’t know. We have more veto points in the American system. That’s probably been good for capitalism and economic growth and maybe a certain type of liberty, I suppose. I think a question I’d like to see addressed more — maybe there’re some good books — is like, I see the US and Europe as diverging more and more. Canonically, Europe is getting longer and longer lifespans. We’re not really. We still have fairly good economic growth, and they don’t really. How much of that is culture? But, our Europeans have long lifespans, right?…
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