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In Spain, up until the 8th of march the government was inviting people to go to women's marchs and saying everything was under control. A guy in charge of the
by spaniard89277 5y ago
In Spain, up until the 8th of march the government was inviting people to go to women's marchs and saying everything was under control.
A guy in charge of the job safety for national police was demoted because he decided to buy and give masks to policeman.
Media affiliated with the government was actively trying to ridicule everyone, calling people alarmists, fascists or whatever insult they came up with. That includes science divulgators, medical personnel, etc. Pretty ugly.
Then, suddenly, the 9th of March we had a very worrysome situation and yadda yadda.
Not to mention the mask thing.
I mean, how in the hell are you going to trust any of this any more? I know I don't. Now if something else happens you have to be very careful, they may be lying to you, or having a combination of lies and stupidity.
I guess this is what happens when the selection of elites is optimized for marketing purposes.
- namlem 5y agoIMO, this is a problem inherent to electoralism. The types of leaders that are best at winning elections tend not to be very good at actually leading. That is why we need to start gradually moving away from this outmodded version of pseudo-democracy. I believe the future of democracy lies in the combination of of deliberative citizens assemblies (such as those that have been taking place in Ireland) and deliberative, consensus-seeking online platforms (such as the vTaiwan project). Elections still have their place, but they should not be the primary mechanism by which we conduct democracy.