It's not American evangelicals. It's been a long campaign and the evangelicals are still being targeted by Israel because no one else is left, but there aren't enough American evangelicals to swing things.
Not to mention, it often comes down to primary voters, to say nothing of Hollywood/media blacklists
> the Democrats are necessarily adversarial, but they clearly aren't as agreeable as a whole).
Democrats only changed recently. For some decades before that, the Israel lobby had significant sway over them (including allowing dems to publicly admit certain things).
The US already has social security, medicare, medicaid. It is often just plain worse/more brutal than Western European countries but the difference isn't a radical reimagination of the social order.
> barring the occasional Bernie
Western Europe has likewise not imagined any new government welfare since the 1970s.
Propaganda helps you ascend to power and then constrains what you do with that power.
Ultimately if you want to look objectively, you have to look at the concrete, at history. But propaganda matters: history would unfold differently without it!
Kondylis disputes the typical interpretation of "conservatism." Historically it was a backwards justification of feudalism. Easy to see why someone would talk up "history," "tradition" when they're at the top of the social order and an upstart comes on to stage.
Haskell actually has a reasonably functional way of approaching things like I/O (in part due to laziness), so that you can e.g. parallelize I/O actions by passing them to a `parallel` function.
> It seems to me like monads must be the logical conclusion to this style of programming, or else you wind up with a mess (or just abandoning this technique.)
Monads are nice, but there's a lot of work on algebraic effects/effects in general which may pan out into something useful (and more general).
Not to mention, it often comes down to primary voters, to say nothing of Hollywood/media blacklists
> the Democrats are necessarily adversarial, but they clearly aren't as agreeable as a whole).
Democrats only changed recently. For some decades before that, the Israel lobby had significant sway over them (including allowing dems to publicly admit certain things).