BagOfHammers@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months ago"Democracy needs its gatekeepers": The Republican Party is too corrupt to care about the countrywww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down123
arrow-up1559arrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoThe problem isn’t that they don’t know things. It’s that they don’t care.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 months 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-up4·11 months 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-down1·11 months agoThey don’t want to, it’s weaponised wilful ignorance.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months 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.