Yeah. I mean I could discuss this in minute detail probably forever but in essence, I am someone who loves the idea of a great conspiracy story where men in smoking rooms decide to further their agenda Yada Yada.
But that has been taken to a place of lunacy lately and I now know why. The liberal democracy that the west has slowly and delicately grown is hands down, the safest form of governing. It places power in systems rather than a single man who would inevitably become either sick or a tyrant.
And we've been conditioned to think that very system is the most corrupt. Do we ever hear Saudi royalty big conspiracy stories? Nah. They are ACTUALLY authoritarian. Yet we foster and force these concepts of murder and false flags and corruption and secret meetings and blah blah about parliamentary and congressional style government. (I trust no one my point is more nuanced)
It just feels funny that the people with the least corrupt system of voting in public elections with term limits and ethics investigatory bodies are supposed to be the corrupt ones but the outright tyrannical dictatorships are often just simply left alone to be.
Now I feel like it has been a long game of "crush the democracy". Because people have been so suspect for so long they, as you just said, feel like the system has been so corrupt that what does it matter. And that apathy just led in a dictator. Bc actually we DIDN'T have a corrupt mess of a system before. Actually past presidents WEREN'T these maniacal tyrants. They came and left according to the rules. They kept precedent in place. They spoke with dignity. But just being told over and over that things are a mess people believe it even if right in front of them things are pretty fucking great.
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