• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    He also further spread anti-government sentiment which has made society far worse as people question everything about government and how it can help people.

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      2 years ago

      Why is questioning the government a bad thing? Shouldnt we have questioned the government more when we were looking for WMDs?

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        2 years ago

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

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          2 years ago

          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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            2 years ago

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

            Not in the US, it isn’t.

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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.