Re:Assange Hearing Day 15
by lukeramsden on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:27PM
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The issue I see is that most of the populous don't even know or hear about, never mind understand, what's going on and what's being done to them - because if it's not in the media (Sun, Mail, Standard, Telegraph, etc) then as far as most of the country is concerned it either doesn't exist, is a conspiracy theory, or is Russian bots causing trouble.
How do you rise up when it's your own people, not just your government and media, trying to pull you back down?
And no I'm not saying one needs to go all the way to revolution, but people have brought countries to a halt over less important matters. Look at the french! It was fucking gas prices(!) the last time they set things on fire.
I don't necessarily agree with the goals of all groups of people rioting and going on strikes recently, but nonetheless it's a healthy thing to have now and then. Reminds those in power who they are beholden to. Without a good scare now and then they might get ideas - and they will - just look at countries where it's been altogether too quiet in recent history:
"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...