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> you chose to walk away from the people who were telling you the truth. To be fair, a combination of heuristics that say "distrust people with proven record o
by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
> you chose to walk away from the people who were telling you the truth.
To be fair, a combination of heuristics that say "distrust people with proven record of lying" and "ability to detach your opinions from reality is a significant advantage when getting and maintaining power" and "lacking external corrections, any ruling system will accumulate exclusively those who spend most of their effort on power games" strongly promotes automatic distrust for any an all politicians.
And I can't say those heuristics are wrong. Then if is up for individual to become an expert in all areas of life or be left to their natural biases...
- ajross 5y ago> strongly promotes automatic distrust for any an all politicians. But... it wasn't politicians. It was never politicians, really. It started with scientists! Left leaning politicians got on board only once their electoral base started moving, they are a lagging indicator. Again, this is excuse-making for having deliberately ignored people who were telling you the truth.