lotstodo
aka "The Jackal"
...so were we ever in charge in the first place, and why are people so pissed off now? I think the article here has more merit than we might initially believe. We may have lost in the past, but we didn't lose "that bad" before. We were if not happy, we were at least not shocked by the opposition. It applies to both sides, and this is what the media and politicians are exploiting. It is the fast road to populism and the resulting decisional chaos.
Government has seldom if ever actually gotten done what they promised for varying reasons, perhaps the biggest being that they honestly can't control the factors of our life that they ran on and claim to be able to. They never could. They like to tell you they can if only "the other side" was not standing in their way. That is most often a fallacy and they know it.
"To the demagogue, the disappointment is a feature, not a bug. A perpetually frustrated and perpetually fearful populace is one that will continue to lend support to demagoguery. The policies adopted by an Erdogan or a Duterte are not meant to solve problems, but to keep the fear of them alive."
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/sovereign-myth/
There is additional reading available at the end of the article. To a libertarian thinker who understands spontaneous order, this crystallizes the harmful role of large government. To the historian, it shows more reason why populist movements, harmful and otherwise, have risen from the frustration with what big government actually is and can never revert from.
Government has seldom if ever actually gotten done what they promised for varying reasons, perhaps the biggest being that they honestly can't control the factors of our life that they ran on and claim to be able to. They never could. They like to tell you they can if only "the other side" was not standing in their way. That is most often a fallacy and they know it.
"To the demagogue, the disappointment is a feature, not a bug. A perpetually frustrated and perpetually fearful populace is one that will continue to lend support to demagoguery. The policies adopted by an Erdogan or a Duterte are not meant to solve problems, but to keep the fear of them alive."
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/sovereign-myth/
There is additional reading available at the end of the article. To a libertarian thinker who understands spontaneous order, this crystallizes the harmful role of large government. To the historian, it shows more reason why populist movements, harmful and otherwise, have risen from the frustration with what big government actually is and can never revert from.