| ▲ | basilgohar 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No one likes hearing hypocrisy from politicians, but it's one of their most dominant traits. That is, if you ascribe normal ethics and morals to them. But politicians' are a different breed, and the sooner we understand that, the better. They will say, and do, whatever they perceive as being the most politically expedient thing to do. The ones that took moral stances in the actual best interest of the populace usually suffered politically for that. The ones that side with power tend to keep their power. This is the folly of political systems in general short of tyrannies, dictatorships, and kingdoms. And now we are seeing how democracies can be stretched into the same quality of life as so-called "lesser" systems but people don't like hearing that argument because the alternative is made out to be so scary. It's not so much that democracy is the problem, but that it's too easy to sway people when it's so easy for money and power to be leveraged to manufacture consent. So now it's the people electing their own tyrants who will enrich and entrench themselves and being grateful for the privilege to be used for that purpose. steps down off of soap box and stops yelling at clouds | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | grues-dinner 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> No one likes hearing hypocrisy from politicians Cambridge Analytica showed politicians in real time that on a population scale, hypocrisy doesn't make any difference. In fact people will bend themselves around to square the circle. Politicians finally knowing for a demonstrable, data-backed, evidence-based fact that they can do basically whatever they want and keep their support as long as they just say they right things is what has brought us from 2016 to now. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | afavour 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m quite sure they don’t see it as hypocrisy. China censors the internet because they want to control everything about their citizens lives. But us? Oh, we’re censoring the internet to protect the children. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | themafia 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> but it's one of their most dominant traits Always has been. What has changed is they now have the power to force their constituency to live with their hypocrisy and lies. Any effort to challenge the "leader" results in claims that you are now a "terrorist." The internet was supposed to empower the citizenry. It's been captured and is now a tool used to suppress them. So now we see leaders completely unchallenged when their darker habits are exposed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hinkley 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> No one likes hearing hypocrisy from politicians You’re clearly not paying attention to American politics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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