Preference Cascades

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers signs of populist unrest in the UK, California, and Alberta, reflects on Molech and idolatry from Stephen’s speech in Acts, and reviews Glenn Reynolds’s Seductive AI with warnings about deception, dependence, and worship.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. Thank you for coming.
0:20.4	Thank you for paying attention, whatever it is you're doing. Part miss. Good to have you. So I want to talk a little bit about some continued indications of populist unrest. Things are continuing to exhibit a state of destabilization. I'm speaking
0:43.0	politically. There are three places that are exhibiting the kind of churn that a few years ago
0:51.5	we never would have expected to see it.
1:00.0	They would be the U.K., California, and Alberta.
1:02.6	UK, California, and Alberta.
1:09.7	A few years ago, California, the California Democrats rammed through a jungle primary in the conviction that it would lock up their
1:13.6	power in California. And it's now looking as though Republicans might take advantage of
1:22.7	the jungle primary. Of course, the voting hasn't happened yet, or the election day has not yet arrived. But there are
1:29.2	two places to watch in California. One would be the governor's race, and the other would be the mayoral
1:35.5	race in Los Angeles, where Spencer Pratt is taking advantage of decades of mismanagement and
1:43.2	incompetent elitism and is running an aggressive campaign and
1:49.1	sort of scaring people into thinking about the prospect of perhaps him winning it.
1:56.5	It's not an outlandish thought anymore. In the UK, they just had local council elections,
2:03.9	and it was a bloodbath for labor. Labor is the ruling party. Labor replaced years of feckless
2:13.2	Tory mismanagement, conservatives pretending to be conservatives, but not really being conservatives.
2:20.3	And so labor was voted in. But then in the local elections, Kier Starrmer is the UK prime
2:28.5	minister, then they had these local elections, and they don't have their parliamentary elections on a schedule the way we do.
2:37.2	It has to occur within a certain window or when the prime minister calls for an election.
2:43.7	But they did have local council elections, and Labor, the ruling party, took an absolute shalacking there. And it was not a
2:54.1	seaw-tter-totter election going back to the conservatives who have proven that they're not
2:59.7	really going to conserve anything. The big vote gain was for two parties, Reform, Nigel Farage, and then Restore, headed up by Rupert Lowe.
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