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I completely understand your feelings regarding a lack of control and agency. Modern politics now essentially revolve around outrage. No politician wants to vot
by kfprt 5y ago
I completely understand your feelings regarding a lack of control and agency. Modern politics now essentially revolve around outrage. No politician wants to vote on something at all controversial, every vote they take is liable to outrage one half of the population or another. Every time they do they halve their voting base until it's an irrelevant tiny minority that agrees on everything. So they have outsourced their job to the supreme court, federal agencies, and the parliamentarian. If you can cause enough outrage you will find that they fold relatively easily.
- 1270018080 5y agoThey posture on identity politics, culture wars, and fear mongering, while their actions do nothing but service the needs of billionaires and corporations. "Critical race theory" in schools as an issue was manufactured out of thin air to make gullible racists afraid of something.
- kook_throwaway 5y agoThere's plenty of things governments could be busy doing that aren't controversial, but managing the existing state doesn't have nearly the glamour (or reelection PR) of changing it.
- sokoloff 5y agoThese topics tend not to be uncorrelated, so making 4 votes doesn’t leave you with 1/16th of your base, but often with 31/32nds of your base.