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People want what they were promised. Career politicians were not giving. They elected someone else instead. Reality is Trump or anyone else wont be able to del
by consentist 10y ago
People want what they were promised. Career politicians were not giving. They elected someone else instead.
Reality is Trump or anyone else wont be able to deliver. I think It all started when democracy transitioned from model of governence to model of public welfare. Then you had some who demanded something else in return (crony capitalism, certain laws), some outsourced jobs to favourable countries and some just immigrated. A shitty mess really.
People will have to further dial down their expectations from democracy/government.
- alphabettsy 10y agoDemocracy in this country was tainted from the start, most of the population were excluded from participation (women & non-whites), so the idea that it suddenly became corrupted is nonsense. The corruption got even worse as those with money and power resisted the others gaining rights to protect themselves from the people with money and power.
- dang 10y agoIt isn't allowed to use HN primarily for political and ideological arguments, nor are single-purpose accounts allowed here, so we've banned this one.