Sorry yall downvote away but I gotta bring up covid in this context. oh yeah sure, after decades of not giving two shits about us suddenly the government is concerned for our health and safety? No one else found that to be immediately sus as hell?
COVID politics was a shitshow because of the noisy information being used to make “informed” decisions. No democratic politician has it in their interest to drive their local economy into the ground, as it is political suicide (as we see across Europe now).
They never cared about YOUR health, they cared about not losing a generation worth of useful working bodies.
Literally nobody has ever said this lol
“Governments are just bodies of people, usually notably ungoverned.”
No, the purpose of government is to preserve what they deem as “order”. For example, the US government is trying to preserve its own existance and preserve the status quo. They conduct surveillance and interfere with extremist groups, both left and right (although they seem to target left-wing groups more often). Governments uphold core principles they value. In the US, the Constitution are those core principles, a Republic of the People that has varying degrees of democracy over time. In China, it’s Marxism-Leninism (although their ideology has been shifting to Maoism, Dengism, and now Xi-ism?). In many middle east countries, it’s Islamic Theocracy.
Governments with elements of democracy tend to “care about your best interests” more often than authoritarian ones, but its more about the core principles rather than the people running the government them selves. Over time, the people in government can shape it’s core principles.
In summary, governments uphold a set of core values that may or may not be in the interest of the people, depending on whether or not the core principles allign with the core principles of what the people believe.
Congress has proven to me over and over again that they don’t, it’s not about what I believe anymore.
