• splicerslicer@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    Difference between holding government accountable and outright saying government is always the problem. The latter only creates apathy among voters.

    • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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      You have two different things there, holding the government accountable, is a thing that happens AFTER they have harmed you, why dont we have mistrust for them while they are making a claim?

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        Small recent example. General blanket distrust in government leads to unwillingness to trust governmental health experts, leading to making the covid pandemic worse than was necessary.

        As was intended by those like Reagan.

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          Or conversely, the general trust in the government led people to go along with measures like lockdowns that harmed the economy, caused severe inflation, and didnt let the kids go to school.

          You are literally repeating bullshit government talking points four years later, you need a little less trust in “experts”.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      Not really, because the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote. There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

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        the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote

        Not in the US, it isn’t.

      • nomous@lemmy.world
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        There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

        Do you think anti-government sentiment makes people less apathetic? I don’t mean fringes on Facebook, I mean regular people who work and pay their bills and have an hour to get whatever news they can before they sleep and do it all over again.