BagOfHammers@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago"Democracy needs its gatekeepers": The Republican Party is too corrupt to care about the countrywww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1580arrow-down122
arrow-up1558arrow-down1external-link"Democracy needs its gatekeepers": The Republican Party is too corrupt to care about the countrywww.salon.comBagOfHammers@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoThe problem isn’t that they don’t know things. It’s that they don’t care.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoIt’s both. It’s fully and completely both. They don’t know sh*t because they don’t care, nor have to.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI’m… not sure if malicious is the right word, at least for the followers. It’s more like they’re living proof of Hanlon’s razor. The followers are literally too stupid to understand.
minus-squareCabrio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThey don’t want to, it’s weaponised wilful ignorance.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI’m not so sure. Their minds are literally too small to understand societal issues.
The problem isn’t that they don’t know things. It’s that they don’t care.
It’s both. It’s fully and completely both. They don’t know sh*t because they don’t care, nor have to.
Malicious ignorance.
I’m… not sure if malicious is the right word, at least for the followers. It’s more like they’re living proof of Hanlon’s razor. The followers are literally too stupid to understand.
They don’t want to, it’s weaponised wilful ignorance.
I’m not so sure. Their minds are literally too small to understand societal issues.