Comment by windthrown
1 day ago
I did similar and you summarized the feelings well. It's really sad and hard to rebuild that trust
And disheartening that people continue to gravitate to a political party that proudly announces desires to abuse this data.
>And disheartening that people continue to gravitate to a political party that proudly announces desires to abuse this data.
The same party that promotes distrust in the government (that is justified by the abuse the same party does when in power).
Amazing, innit.
> The same party that promotes distrust in the government (that is justified by the abuse the same party does when in power).
Perhaps because they know how corrupt they, themselves, are, they assume everyone else is the same way:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
Perhaps the possibility that others are more altruistic does not enter the realm of possibility in their minds.
The premise of the Republican party for half a century now has been: "The government can't do anything right, and if you elect us we'll prove it!"
And it's something of a coin flip whether people prefer that philosophy to the other mob. Trump has made it to a seconds term and is talking about a third because of the stunning policy failures of the US government over the last 50 years.
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The worse things get, the better they do. It's an insidious, vicious cycle.
Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.
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No, this isn't a natural law of the universe. Sometimes thing get worse and then stay bad for a long, long time. We happen to exist in a relatively stable, prosperous period. We have used that prosperity to build a system that is more complex and brittle than any time in the history of the species. It won't be pretty when we reach the inevitable crisis.
The people in charge have never seen suffering and don't understand the essential role they have in preventing it. Instead they're disassembling the plane for parts while we hurtle toward the ground.
Your comment brought the song lyrics from Murder - Sepultura:
I got no comment on the essence of your comment, but (in your implied meaning), the very last of the song was matching what you wrote.
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You should never trust a politician, especially one that claims to be on/in the left.
These two statements are equally as vacuous.
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You're playing party politics. That's the risk you take: that the party has goals beyond your (dareisay naive) utopian ideals for civic engagement.
Parties are not universally evil, when I malign them in this way it is in full acknowlegment that organization is the nearly singular path to "effect on target" as regards society-scale politics. What I mean is the party per se becomes a superorganism that has always as its first priority self-preservation (a la homeostasis) and it is very worth remembering this when subsuming oneself into their structure.