Human Nature

[Ivan Denisovich]

To be fair majority of politicians are liars (at least in Poland). This is why such strategy finds so easy purchase among people. Far right greatest strength is in deplorable state of mainstream politics.

The new vice-chair of the Democratic Party said yesterday that school shootings are the fault of democracy, and climate change issues can't be solved because of democracy.

If he really said that then he is a clown and idiot. Uttering the words does not make them true though and the fact that he blames democracy for them makes him look like mental midget.

Then there's the problem that a lot of people voted for Trump, so it's clear that democracy doesn't work out so well sometimes.

Sure it doesn't, especially when it is subverted from inside i.e. like in this money is speech verdict. This however only means that democracy should be reformed to include stringent protection about money in politics and idiotic judges not done away with.

And of course many Trump supporters think that the US government has so completely failed to address their concerns that we need a Strong Man to take care of things -- a tough rude boy to cut through the resistance.

USA fails by many metrics (wealth disparity, imprisonment rate, support for israel genocidal actions) so trump supporters can be right in that gov failed them. Wanting strong man to save them however is nothing more than childishness and ignorance about fate of fascist regimes coupled with propaganda.

When both parties are starting to make anti-democracy noises, it makes me wonder if things are about to change in a big way.

Sliding into fascism is quite a big change.