Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M...
by chongli on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:21AM
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I don't see how the voters are complicit in any of this.
Human beings also have their own schedules and priorities. People are more stressed out and busy than ever. Inflation is rampant due to a war in Europe that regular people (especially those outside of Europe) had no power to avoid. Every year technology and social media get ever-more complex and sophisticated, demanding more and more awareness and discipline from people to avoid collapsing into a black hole of time-wasting.
Likewise, the problems facing societies at the national level and humanity at the global level have become unbelievably technical and complicated, yet we expect voters to navigate them like experts and deliver a miracle in the voting both? How has this idea not become widely seen for what it is: an absurd fantasy.
Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M...
by sokoloff on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:26AM
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When voters accept “I’ll accept nonsense and still vote for whatever ‘my’ party puts in front of me”, eventually (over decades), they bear some non-zero responsibility for the outcome they get.
If you can’t manage to review your campaign promises until it’s time to campaign again, that gives me reason to doubt your competence or your genuineness as an executive. There are literally thousands of people working who support the President. None of them could find time to write up an executive order and put it on the agenda in the first 100 days? (Remember, they would be allowed to “cheat” and work on this before inauguration or even before the election.)
But because the frying pan is slightly more comfortable than the fire, people keep tolerating this and voting for the lesser of the evils they’re offered, so so long as this strategy is epsilon more effective than actually leading the country and aggressively delivering on your promises, we should expect to see more, not less of it. Ultimately, the voters are partially complicit in this nonsense.