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@aral Wait, you need a degree to run for president in Turkey? Wouldn't that favor rich people even more than politics already does?

@aral Well, yes. But presumably that system was designed before Erdogan.

Question, since I assume from the frequency of these postings you follow Turkish politics more than I do: do you know if this autocracy came top-down -- i.e., Erdogan first, then at a more local level -- or bottom-up -- i.e., democracy was already nonexistent or quite weak at the local level and Erdogan reflects that?

@FishNamedDog It was the neoliberalism to fascism pipeline. What we’re seeing repeated in the USA today but with Islamofascism instead of Christofascism.