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If more than 40% of US citizens believe the IMO blindingly obvious lie that the last election was stolen, there is a real problem. A society needs trust to work

• t-3 5y ago
  > A society needs trust to work. Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other.
  • JumpCrisscross 5y ago
    > Does it? Seems to me that most people don't, and never have trusted each other Most people don't need to trust each other. The elites certainly do, at the very least, to respect the peaceful transfer of power. Democracies have, by design, lots of elites, so the coördination problem becomes (intentionally) more difficult.
• hallway_monitor 5y ago
  A society does need trust. The US is losing that trust which is worrying. The almost-majority who doubt election integrity is a symptom of that, not the cause. When it's 60% who have doubts, is it still a "blindingly obvious lie"? What about 80%?