It’s not really about how politics work. It is about how human minds work. The fact that making empty promises and then excuses is more effective than being honest shows one of the reasons why democracy isn’t a good system (although it may currently be the least bad).
And just accepting the lies probably makes it worse.
It’s not really about how politics work. It is about how human minds work. The fact that making empty promises and then excuses is more effective than being honest shows one of the reasons why democracy isn’t a good system (although it may currently be the least bad).
And just accepting the lies probably makes it worse.
Excuses like roughly half of Americans oppose it and are shitheads?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/22/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-medical-or-recreational-use/
88% support legalization of marijuana, hell if you expand that to all drugs, 55% still support the decriminalization of all drugs
https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-55-americans-favor-decriminalizing-drugs
Only half are shitheads? (suprised pikachu)
On a more serious note: That would be a very good excuse if that wasn’t obvious already when he was making promises.
If his campaign promises had been worded as “we’ll try to do blank”, people would have criticized that, too.
Yeah, by dumb people. Sad state of events that the whole society is now being built around appeasing dumb people.
Appeasing dumb people isn’t a new thing.
Mistreating vulnerable people isn’t either.