They make laws that claim to be for everybody but are only for people who aren’t rich or powerful. The rich and powerful can commit bribery, human trafficking, murder, and more without consequence but yet jail people for doing the same thing. It’s like parents who swear all the time but punish their children for swearing.

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    Not all government. Government is actually really good and useful. In the hands of psychopaths and grifters it becomes an edifice to tear down because it offers protections and rules.

    Anyone who says “government is the problem” fundamentally does not understand the role of government in society.

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      The reason I said governments in general was I didn’t want to single out any particular country when lots of countries are like this. I agree that government isn’t inherently bad if done right.

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    i mean the people are also kind of like voting for this actively… (depending on location ofc)

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      First-past-the-post: I will elect out of touch politicians with only 39% of the vote.

      Then the people will eat up all the poor excuses from the rich from implementing real democratic proportional representation.

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        More like we don’t have a choice, and the math wasn’t done to prove that we wouldn’t have a choice for another 65-75 years after we set up the first modern democracy based on 6 Nations philosophy, but go ahead, go off.

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      Buddy, I hate to tell you this…but thats not in human nature.

      What I have seen time and time again, is people are herded like sheep. A select few will take advantage of this, and herd the masses to their control.

      Been like this for thousands of years.