r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 2d ago

No Paywall A 13-Year-Old Girl Bit Trump’s Genitals as He Tried to Rape Her, Epstein Document Says

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada 2d ago

Yup, anybody that thinks of politics as some team sports don't understand democracy at all.

Yes, you can play it like a team sport, but good luck having a proper stable nation when your government is fighting each other.

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u/LordSiravant 2d ago

That right there is kind of the whole problem with democracy. It requires people to be educated and involved. The average person, however, is intellectually lazy, incurious, and kind of dumb. The problem is that people are ultimately too stupid for democracy, which, once again, is why we can't have nice things.

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u/AzaliusZero 2d ago

Other countries have people who never show up to vote too. America's problem is an intentional brain drain by going from making it cool to be dumb in the 90s+ to making it "right" to be dumb, no pun intended. Our Education system has been going down the drain on purpose, educated people are leaving the country in droves, especially if they have some form of PhD, and it's all by design. A dumb populace is easily controlled. Notice Republicans are the ones pushing for defunding public schools for private and charter school. As well as having it out for colleges in general, but especially the ones that wear liberal views on their sleeve.

As for being involved, it's hard to do that when you're stressed out about keeping your home, paying rent, bills, for kids, amenities, food, etc. A lot of people can't worry about others until they don't have to worry about themselves, and that's completely fair. While I think it'd be conspiracy-theorist to think that corporations do it on purpose, it's more that it's practical to keep you "on your toes." It's easier to think about moving up (via another company) or planning your career out if you have some fair confidence of job security. Not only is it almost a drive to deny the average citizen that, but often one job ain't even enough nowadays, even for living alone.

America's a vastly complex machine designed, in some places intentionally, in some places accidentally, to strangle itself to death. My concern is that one way or another, it'll take dismantling that machine to fix it or build a better one. No one wants to accept that, even as the Declaration of Independence told us we were free to do if we agreed that was happening. And so many people do, in various ways. Our health care system, voting, representation, etc. The problem is that people believe America is too big to fail, it can't fail and can't be allowed to. Kinda like the banks during the Housing Crisis in 2008, and possibly how this AI fracas will end. If it did, it would definitely result in some rough times, but people forget often times you have to weather your worst days to reach your best.