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However, I think there's an argument that the existence of that backup, or at least its marketing, might of itself encourage people to make the institutions fai
by pjc50 4mo ago
However, I think there's an argument that the existence of that backup, or at least its marketing, might of itself encourage people to make the institutions fail so they can profit from it.
- rglullis 4mo agoThat's a weak argument. If the institutions can collapse because a few powerful people can work against it, then the institution has already failed in the first place. Trump and the general rise of Populism is not the cause of the fall of Western democracies, it is a consequence.
- mrhottakes 4mo agoYou don't seem to grasp that the answer isn't "oh well, Western democracies were just going to fail I guess"
- inigyou 4mo agoThe answer to what?
- mrhottakes 4mo agoThe answer to institutional collapse, the topic of the post to which I replied.
- felixgallo 4mo agoYou're going to have to show your work on that one. Western democracies are suffering not because they are failing, but because they have been chipped away at for decades by fanatical right wing billionaires intent on eliminating taxes and securing their place in a perpetual oligarchy.