Everyone is stupid about some things, and some people are smart about how to grift those who are dumb about a category. And those people are heavily incentivized to do so with the things that they can gain things like money, control, ego. So voila, you have a significant percentage of the population that are dumb about things like politics because the grifter types have been manipulating more and more power while undermining systems designed to ensure people are properly educated and informed. This also improves the efficacy of things like election fraud.
It’s a social cycle that repeats all over the globe time and time again. And unfortunately the cycle rarely resets unless things just break.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
I’m on the left, but international internet conversations are always like this because people think “left = good” and “right = bad”, regardless of whether or not a country is heading into hyperinflation to sustain leftist policy.
People in the United States, suffering under decades of corporate centrism, have no reference point for leftist economic policies failing, just FDR’s programs which were pretty awesome all around.
It would be really nice if the system produced more than 2 options, you know? Sometimes the leftist party has very poor leadership or their ideas are just played out and it needs to lose power, but when the only alternative is the equivalent of throwing yourself in a fire because they’re openly criminal and corrupt, you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t, si?
Yes, it does suck. Problem is human society. “The right” represents corporate interest, and the left should represent the people’s interests, but too often the left just represents an extractive clientislist state. Whatever you call them, systems reward themselves. It’s why I’m pessimistic about government.
But the thing is all the assholes thinking they’re so smart because they’d never vote for a right-candidate and that everyone in those countries are so stupid for voting for right candidates, all the people downvoting my comment, are just an example of the globality of stupidity.
Because they are stupid for voting for a right wing candidate. He’s going to turn on them immediately and destroy their livelihoods because that’s what they do. That’s all the right wing ever does and has ever done. They’re not here to help you. They’re here to help themselves, usually to the fruits of your labour. And then they call us thieves for demanding our cut of the wealth back. The right wing is just organized crime with better PR, that’s all they’ve ever been and that’s all they’ll ever be. Oh they’ll dress it up in a song and dance about some nostalgic nonsense or another, it’s all a spectacle to keep you distracted while they pick your pocket. “Oh we’re the party of law and order” bullshit. They’ll complain about crime, loudly and for hours to anyone who will listen, but their “solutions” are usually just more ways to profiteer off of it while pretending their useless gestures are “Doing something.”
At least they’re more honest about it than the damned centrists, but given the choice of being stabbed in the back or in the face, I’d say I’d rather not be stabbed at all.
People are plain stupid all over the world
I mean, Occam’s razor. Either everyone is stupid or election fraud is easy for rich people.
Personally, I’m an optimist, so I think it’s election fraud.
*A person is smart, people are dumb. *
Everyone is stupid about some things, and some people are smart about how to grift those who are dumb about a category. And those people are heavily incentivized to do so with the things that they can gain things like money, control, ego. So voila, you have a significant percentage of the population that are dumb about things like politics because the grifter types have been manipulating more and more power while undermining systems designed to ensure people are properly educated and informed. This also improves the efficacy of things like election fraud.
It’s a social cycle that repeats all over the globe time and time again. And unfortunately the cycle rarely resets unless things just break.
–Marcus Tullius Cicero, ca. 50 BCE
This is the truth. They almost always vote by their current emotional state, too.
Case in point: your comment.
I’m on the left, but international internet conversations are always like this because people think “left = good” and “right = bad”, regardless of whether or not a country is heading into hyperinflation to sustain leftist policy.
People in the United States, suffering under decades of corporate centrism, have no reference point for leftist economic policies failing, just FDR’s programs which were pretty awesome all around.
It would be really nice if the system produced more than 2 options, you know? Sometimes the leftist party has very poor leadership or their ideas are just played out and it needs to lose power, but when the only alternative is the equivalent of throwing yourself in a fire because they’re openly criminal and corrupt, you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t, si?
Yes, it does suck. Problem is human society. “The right” represents corporate interest, and the left should represent the people’s interests, but too often the left just represents an extractive clientislist state. Whatever you call them, systems reward themselves. It’s why I’m pessimistic about government.
But the thing is all the assholes thinking they’re so smart because they’d never vote for a right-candidate and that everyone in those countries are so stupid for voting for right candidates, all the people downvoting my comment, are just an example of the globality of stupidity.
So it’s not looking good for the human race.
Because they are stupid for voting for a right wing candidate. He’s going to turn on them immediately and destroy their livelihoods because that’s what they do. That’s all the right wing ever does and has ever done. They’re not here to help you. They’re here to help themselves, usually to the fruits of your labour. And then they call us thieves for demanding our cut of the wealth back. The right wing is just organized crime with better PR, that’s all they’ve ever been and that’s all they’ll ever be. Oh they’ll dress it up in a song and dance about some nostalgic nonsense or another, it’s all a spectacle to keep you distracted while they pick your pocket. “Oh we’re the party of law and order” bullshit. They’ll complain about crime, loudly and for hours to anyone who will listen, but their “solutions” are usually just more ways to profiteer off of it while pretending their useless gestures are “Doing something.”
At least they’re more honest about it than the damned centrists, but given the choice of being stabbed in the back or in the face, I’d say I’d rather not be stabbed at all.
And that’s kind of the problem–you are assuming a possibility that does not exist.
Well, it could, but not under the current conditions. A man can still dream.
You must be the guy whose answer to the trolley problem is “I’d find a way to stop the trolley without anyone getting hurt.”
i’m the guy whose answer is “can i stop the trolley with my body” and was really cranky when i saw it on that television show