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> ...fanatical anti government propaganda. Jim Crow, Watergate, Catholic priest abuse scandals, regulatory failure in 2008, too big to fail, gerrymandering, po
by humanrebar 7y ago
> ...fanatical anti government propaganda.
Jim Crow, Watergate, Catholic priest abuse scandals, regulatory failure in 2008, too big to fail, gerrymandering, police involved shootings, Hurricane Katrina flooding, Keystone Pipeline leaks, ...
And, yes, it happens in local markets too: taxi medallion systems, overzealous zoning, local corruption, running Amazon out of Queens, and so on.
We could call skepticism fanatical, but that dismisses some pretty substantive history and current events regarding government corruption and incompetence.
- justinclift 7y agoMaybe it's time for an update to Hanlon's razor? ;) Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by corruption.
- hedora 7y agoIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair
- justinclift 7y agoYeah, similar. ;)