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Firestarter | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Things keep getting worse for the average person but we are supposed to believe that we're the ones choosing who's in charge and how our society is run? Democracy is a big fat lie.
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Jeff Swann | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It is a lie, but if the average person in most places was actually given the policies they believe they want, things would also get worse for them all the time.

They want the govt to give them stuff (free healthcare, education, housing, etc), this produces shortages & reduces quality & drives up other costs, they want govt to mandate higher pay & better conditions, lots of people end up out of work, so they want the govt to give them more stuff... Etc etc
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Firestarter | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Personally, I believe that the world should be run by Gough Whitlam 😁
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Jeff Swann | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Australian social progressive...? If that's a joke, I'm not sure I understand it. Either way, no thanks

The point of a constitutional republic was supposed to be to remove most aspects of life from any govt or "democratic" influence. Unfortunately such limitations seem to be short lived. Hopefully distributed systems like Bitcoin can resist any sort of changes by way of "public opinion" or arbitrary authority.

Social progressivism is generally antithetical to any sort of limited govt & is the ideology promoted by wannabe slave owners to get people to support the policies, & expansion of govt power, that will result in their own enslavement.