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Originally Posted by d2_e4
You certainly have a lot more faith in the goodness of human nature than I do, and worldwide political developments of the last decade or so have only served to reinforce my cynicism.
I cant speak for how European/British politics works, but in America if you understand how the US govt is designed; its beauty is it actually takes the same view of human nature you.
Our Constitution basically assumes "the people" are stupid and will make bad decision, so the structure is such that elites have a lot of control to make sure these ideas never come to fruition or can be quickly undone. People can vote for all sorts of dumb ****, very little of it ever comes to fruition. In my state (California) the people pass propositions all the time that never happen because they get nerfed going through the courts or legislature.
Even someone as toxic and disruptive as Trump didn't perturb the system very much.
That is why leftists like Victor and Trolly hate liberal elites so much, because generally elites just ignore the far left. But the sane people realize that is actually a good thing, because their ideas are so stupid and destructive.