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politics, useless governments

@sashin @Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:
many would argue that government has been hollowed out by business/wealth. every politician has rich donors making a buck on the back end

Adam Smith said that state and business are in a boxing match and one steps out of line the other smacks them, but I don't even recall the last time state threw anything close to a punch

the only time we've had epic social progress its been due to pressure from the outside - the civil rights movement, forcing politicians into a corner

perhaps, as Sashin says, forcing the ruling into a corner

its really them state cares about - and the compromises from past battles are the things we took for granted growing up

but if people that came before us managed to push the ruling class into a corner then it can be done again - don't get defeatist

Sashin @sashin@veganism.social
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politics, useless governments

@normjess༺ Ｇｏｔｈ ★ Ｊｅｓｓｉｃａ ༻ @Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: the state and business have a wrestling match.

Just like actual wrestling it's fake and scripted.

It's supposed to garner consent for the status quo and get people to put there breads down and accept that the system works.

That's right, the government can move in a good, progressive direction when one and only one condition is met:

1. They are more afraid of the people than of the wealthy

When this condition is met, the seemingly infinite bureaucratic walls blockading even the most modest efforts towards progress will mysteriously vanish like dew under the morning sun.

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