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You could trust them otherwise? You can't trust politicians, period. Their interests and incentives don't align with ours. Your default mode should be to distru
by eloff 13y ago
You could trust them otherwise? You can't trust politicians, period. Their interests and incentives don't align with ours. Your default mode should be to distrust them, to expect them to lie when it serves their ends. Anything else is, quite frankly, a very naive world view.
- dllthomas 13y agoBut that does not mean you should accept it when they lie. You should expect them to lie when it serves their ends, but a refusal to accept it (coupled with vigilance and systems that make it hard for them to get away with it) means it more rarely serves their ends.