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> People are getting upset about this, even though a non-trivial portion of the same people broke the law at the same time to see family and party? That's a ma

• wanda 5y ago
  Fair point. Can you show me a Prime Minister who hasn't lied to the Commons and the British populace about something? Sorry, that's unfair. Can you show me a [governing body/individual] who hasn't lied to the [country]'s populace about something? My point is only that people should be pretty pissed off about a host of other lies and fuck ups by this government and every government prior, but they're not. Why aren't they? Well, because when governments screw up, the world keeps ticking over. Somebody embezzles a few million here, does some insider trading there, covers for some sex offenders elsewhere, etc. But none of this messes with a person's daily routine. Their world keeps going, the company they work for still exists and if not, they'll just work somewhere else. And it's obviously a lot more effort to dethrone the bloated corpses of our entrenched governments, and even more effort to replace it with something that is better. Especially when, to the best of our knowledge, there isn't a better alternative to liberal democracy, but it comes with the small print that corruption is pretty much a part of it. No one wants to rock the boat. The boat's got some leaks, we have to empty the water out every now and then, sometimes she runs aground due to some fairly terrible decision making by the captains, but it's the only boat where people can live in relative peace that's proven seaworthy so far.