It’s crazy how well it works. Like I know people in general are easily swayed by anything that sounds good. I just didn’t realize this many could be swayed by a guy that makes no fucking sense more than half the time. We live in bizarro world.
I always believed in democracy. But it turns out, government by the people is dangerous and inevitably doomed to fascist capture when the people are rętarded.
I’m not sure what the remedy is. When the alternative is authoritarianism, oligarchy, monarchy… I just desperately want the people to be better.
The relentless gutting of decent education and increasing the prohibitive cost of higher education is at the root of a lot of this.
The people in power need a populace who vote against their own interests. A typical person who can think critically and has media literacy is much less likely to vote in someone aiming to take away their own rights.
This argument doesn’t hold water. The largest demographic backing trump is the boomers who have not been in the education system for 40-50 years. You’re telling me the pinnacle of our education system was before 1960? I just don’t buy that argument.
Should we improve our education system? Absolutely!
Is it the single contributor to the worldwide authoritarian pivot of the last decade? No.
The remedy is to root out the fascism that lives to corrupt our once stable institutions of democracy. To be much more vigilant about it in the future, as this is certainly not the first time this has happened. It’s just the first time it’s happened to this extent in our country.
Democracy isn’t failing because of flaws i democracy, it’s failing because of laws in ourselves. For that’s what democracy stands for, and ultimately relies upon: people acting in good faith. When half the country refuses to do that, democracy simply doesn’t work. And they know that.
This is how autocrats, dictators, and fascists always come to power, they undermine a stable Democratic society by dismantling its key institutions, and then they point at democracy and call it a “failure“ just so that people who may not be too stupid to think, but are certainly too lazy to think, will give them power if they promise a solution to their woes. And that’s exactly what Trump has done.
Yeah. I still find the idea that government derives its just power from the consent of the governed and from nowhere else to be a pretty compelling idea in theory, but if this is the practical outcome, well, it sucks.
oh yeah. i used to get my jollies spreading verifiable bullshit on reddit and seeing what would stick. I’m not gonna say I grew up, but I grew out of that at least.
It’s crazy how well it works. Like I know people in general are easily swayed by anything that sounds good. I just didn’t realize this many could be swayed by a guy that makes no fucking sense more than half the time. We live in bizarro world.
I always believed in democracy. But it turns out, government by the people is dangerous and inevitably doomed to fascist capture when the people are rętarded.
I’m not sure what the remedy is. When the alternative is authoritarianism, oligarchy, monarchy… I just desperately want the people to be better.
The relentless gutting of decent education and increasing the prohibitive cost of higher education is at the root of a lot of this.
The people in power need a populace who vote against their own interests. A typical person who can think critically and has media literacy is much less likely to vote in someone aiming to take away their own rights.
I used to think that but I know a large number of educated people who were a big fan, at least the first presidency… and I’m in Canada
This argument doesn’t hold water. The largest demographic backing trump is the boomers who have not been in the education system for 40-50 years. You’re telling me the pinnacle of our education system was before 1960? I just don’t buy that argument.
Should we improve our education system? Absolutely! Is it the single contributor to the worldwide authoritarian pivot of the last decade? No.
The remedy is to root out the fascism that lives to corrupt our once stable institutions of democracy. To be much more vigilant about it in the future, as this is certainly not the first time this has happened. It’s just the first time it’s happened to this extent in our country.
Democracy isn’t failing because of flaws i democracy, it’s failing because of laws in ourselves. For that’s what democracy stands for, and ultimately relies upon: people acting in good faith. When half the country refuses to do that, democracy simply doesn’t work. And they know that.
This is how autocrats, dictators, and fascists always come to power, they undermine a stable Democratic society by dismantling its key institutions, and then they point at democracy and call it a “failure“ just so that people who may not be too stupid to think, but are certainly too lazy to think, will give them power if they promise a solution to their woes. And that’s exactly what Trump has done.
We must fight back, in every way we can.
Edit: spells and grams
Majority rule don’t work in mental institutions.
Remedy is education. It’s not easy, it’s very hard, but the solution is simple and obvious.
Yeah. I still find the idea that government derives its just power from the consent of the governed and from nowhere else to be a pretty compelling idea in theory, but if this is the practical outcome, well, it sucks.
I don’t have a better plan. I wish I did.
oh yeah. i used to get my jollies spreading verifiable bullshit on reddit and seeing what would stick. I’m not gonna say I grew up, but I grew out of that at least.