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> I'm starting to think that the outcome of our political systems in the West produces suboptimal compromises engineered by politicians who are quite frankly ig

by paulmd 6y ago

> I'm starting to think that the outcome of our political systems in the West produces suboptimal compromises engineered by politicians who are quite frankly ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and really just not good specimens of the species. It's like the system is designed to be mediocre. the problem is that one of the political parties has it as an ideological point that government doesn't and can't work, and sets out to sabotage everything to prove that they're right. Like how florida deliberately makes it impossible to get your unemployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast There is, unfortunately, not a good fix for this, as similar parties exist worldwide. But banning Murdoch media and de-consolidating media control in general (returning local stations to local management, etc) would be a good start. Cause right now this is your local news station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

eloff 6y ago
I don't accept your leftist explanation that the problem is the right. It's much more nuanced than that.
- paulmd 6y ago
  If you went to work for a company that you didn't like and you sandbagged all your work you would be fired. Somehow this is considered acceptable when your employer is the taxpayer. A large part of the problem of "why doesn't government produce good outcomes" is exactly this - people who have a vested personal interest in producing bad outcomes, because that's what they run on. How do you fix it? Not easy obviously, but certain propaganda networks are a large chunk of the problem. Murdoch's networks specifically, and Sinclair's network controlling local broadcasting.
  - eloff 6y ago
    I'm not saying that behavior is ok, but neither is it the exclusive domain of the right. Both parties engage in this kind of nonsense.

by paulmd 6y ago

eloff 6y ago

I don't accept your leftist explanation that the problem is the right. It's much more nuanced than that.

paulmd 6y ago
If you went to work for a company that you didn't like and you sandbagged all your work you would be fired. Somehow this is considered acceptable when your employer is the taxpayer. A large part of the problem of "why doesn't government produce good outcomes" is exactly this - people who have a vested personal interest in producing bad outcomes, because that's what they run on. How do you fix it? Not easy obviously, but certain propaganda networks are a large chunk of the problem. Murdoch's networks specifically, and Sinclair's network controlling local broadcasting.
- eloff 6y ago
  I'm not saying that behavior is ok, but neither is it the exclusive domain of the right. Both parties engage in this kind of nonsense.