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Cute cynicism, but you elect representatives who in turn appoint people to positions of authority. That's how this works. The laws are created and managed by pe
by NullCharacter 11y ago
Cute cynicism, but you elect representatives who in turn appoint people to positions of authority. That's how this works. The laws are created and managed by people put into power by the governed.
I understand that may go against your Freshman sociology 101 libertarian mantra, but the real world has already sorted this out and it tends to work pretty well.
- kasdaskdqwe 11y agoCrossposting to reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
- NullCharacter 11y agoAnd be sure to link me the post please.
- logfromblammo 11y ago> The laws are created and managed by people put into power by the governed. I see from the apparent sincerity behind your comment that I have lived in Chicago, and you have not. The way the system works is that you vote, the government pretends to care what you think, and it continues to do whatever the hell it was doing as before, only with minor tweaks to its public relations budget. It's still better than the alternative, which is an armed regime controlling your life without pretending to care what you think. Libertarian fantasies notwithstanding, most people need to join an armed cartel in order to realize a better quality of life, and no one really benefits from whitewashing over that. The real world reads Machiavelli, a Modern Approach, and the politics of money, fear, and control are now very nearly perfected. It works "pretty well" only for a minority of wealthy backers. It's very easy to find someone faring worse than you under the prevailing political system. In 4000 years, the mechanics of human political power structures have remained largely unchanged, while technology has improved by many orders of magnitude.