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The American paradox is that you often have very good governments, but trust them very little. Where as you often have very evil companies, but trust them very
by eksemplar 8y ago
The American paradox is that you often have very good governments, but trust them very little. Where as you often have very evil companies, but trust them very much.
Europe is the opposite.
The EU is working hard to secure citizen rights though, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t working for ways that you can share your data. The EU just wants transparency and ownership to remain with its citizens.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> the American paradox is that you often have very good governments, but trust them very little That distrust is a reason why our government has been stable over the past 200 years, despite a series of technological, economic, geopolitical and cultural changes.
- adventured 8y agoThe two party system also results in dramatically greater stability, typically at a cost trade-off of dynamism. It's hard to change a two party system, so hopefully if you've got one of those, you have something worth maintaining underneath. Systems with lots of parties are far less stable over long periods of time by contrast and are prone to rapid change and takeover. Australia for example, with its 13 parties with parliamentary representation, lately can't keep a leader for more than a year or two, with six prime ministers in a decade. In that extreme case it's causing policy stagnation however, as none of them are managing to tackle big, urgent problems before they're tossed out. Europe's typical preference (excluding a few countries like Russia) toward lots of parties has also resulted in neo-Nazi groups acquiring increasing government power and representation, another downside to that approach.