Posted by: syncro
Posted by: KenN
I disagree. That's the same defence deployed by the auto industry ... "we can't sell fuel efficient cars because the buyers want huge SUVs and pickup trucks". Meanwhile they throw billions into advertising SUVs and pickup trucks and invest nothing in decent, efficient cars.
The politicians are telling you what you want, and you're lapping up the sexy advertising. (That's a plural "you").
That's not a defence as you suggest it, just me stating an opinion of what I see wrong with our political system. Either way we are both suggesting the same thing, that the electorate is ultimately responsible for how the government and politicians operate. People are far too focused on ideology and voting for their team instead of consideration platforms and action and then responding in kind. We complain about billionaires and corporate wealth yet we're chasing the same bottom line,only in the form of low taxes and what the government is going to "give" me.
That is just it. There is a disconnect between what people want and what they are willing to pay for. In the real world, you pay less, you get less. If the government runs a deficit for 10 years people get into their ideology trench and either argue that the government is spending too much, or that they are not taxing enough, as though those are 2 different positions. Those that want cuts want them to affect someone else and those that want higher taxes want them for someone else.
People suck.
"People! What a bunch of bastards." - Roy, IT Crowd
