Governments are comprised of people. Like any other people they should be judged on their actions. Blanket statements about distrusting governments and politicians no matter what they actually do is no different than distrusting science and experts. It’s all part of how we got here.
Not only that, governments are comprised of people who are paid a fixed salary with no bonuses or incentives and strict conflict of interest rules whose literal only job is to work to make people’s lives collectively better.
That’s how it should be. In the US, we need to outlaw insider trading for elected officials. This is a known issue, based on the evidence we have. There’s no reason to engage in any conspiracism at all.
And they have been trained to hate government, science and experts.
The only one of those you should hate is the government.
Governments are comprised of people. Like any other people they should be judged on their actions. Blanket statements about distrusting governments and politicians no matter what they actually do is no different than distrusting science and experts. It’s all part of how we got here.
Not only that, governments are comprised of people who are paid a fixed salary with no bonuses or incentives and strict conflict of interest rules whose literal only job is to work to make people’s lives collectively better.
That’s how it should be. In the US, we need to outlaw insider trading for elected officials. This is a known issue, based on the evidence we have. There’s no reason to engage in any conspiracism at all.