Comment by aleph_minus_one
1 day ago
The politicians are those who created the respecting laws.
"Convincing the masses to send these politicians to hell" is thus nearly isomorphic to making the masses hate politicians who create such laws, which at least very likely implies that by convincing the masses to send these politicians to hell, a different mindset emerges in the masses.
> The politicians are those who created the respecting laws.
Yes and general population LOVES these laws, even though they are harmful to them. But anyway - you've got your causality reversed - it's voting masses that incentivize rent controls and other shitty politics. Remember that to implement your policies you've got to actually win elections. And since people generally don't understand n-order effects for n>=2, it's really easy to win elections with populist policies.
> Yes and general population LOVES these laws, even though they are harmful to them.
I can only say that in Germany, where I live, in my gut feeling the situation is very different: politicians imposing various laws "for the common good" and many parts of the populations hate these laws because this implies even more red tape.