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Because when you call them leaders and when they see themselves as leaders, they see themselves as a separate class. A permanent difference from the " mere citi
by martin-t 1y ago
Because when you call them leaders and when they see themselves as leaders, they see themselves as a separate class. A permanent difference from the " mere citizen" class.
"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on." -- Larry Ellison (who should not be anthropomorphized)
And Ellison is not even a politician, he doesn't even has any kind of immunity. Meanwhile, EU politicians want to impose Chat Control on everyone except them.
The core issue is that they see themselves as different from us.
Politics should not be a career. It should be something a person does for 5, at most 10 years max and after that they are back to being like everyone else, with 0 benefits (and with potentially more surveillance, I think politicians' finances should be under extra scrutiny for the rest of their lives).
- lyu07282 1y agoIt's really strange how we disconnected ideology from politics, in people's minds ideology only exists on the fringes of the far-left and far-right which are considered identical. If you criticize a politician you should be aware of their ideology, because they certainly are very much "political", but you aren't. When "leaders" talk about activists they say things like they were "politicized" as a derogatory term, in contrast to the default which is "depoliticized". Our leaders are waaaay more politicized than we are and way more ideologically consistent in their actions than you will ever realize.
- immibis 1y agoI wonder if Congress would behave differently if they were consistently called "law janitors" or "public servants" or if those terms would just acquire the same connotations as "leader" and "politician"