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Originally Posted by Alonsua
Maybe details are missing, but obviously We Can need candidates, and Genesis has had years to prepare them.
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Possibly, but running on the platform of 'I for one welcome our new Brainwashing Overlords' seems like it might make for a somewhat hard sell.
When estimating TDMs for Propaganda and Politics, it's a good thing to keep in mind that subtly emphasising one part of currently popular memeplexes over others is a lot easier than making massive changes that aren't piggybacking on trends that are occuring 'naturally'.
It's a lot harder to change something as fundamental as the nature of nation-states and their sovereignity over their territory than it is to win an election with substantially the same platform as the other party, consisting mostly of memes that are mostly already accepted, with arguments being mostly over priorities.
It's like fighting a couple of guys with swords, but instead of trying to defeat them with a sword of your own, you're wielding a needle and trying to tattoo the Chinese alphabet on their bodies. You're accepting a pretty huge challenge and even if you're awesome and they are ordinary, you need to be aware that the logical ending probably has a lot more stabbing and skewering in it than you'd want.