We wouldn't want to become one of those! As long as we never hold leaders accountable I'm sure we'll be safe from that fate.
Once they eradicate "wokeness" from the government, then they can just declare something or someone "woke" and then get punitive with them. Or at least that's one way I think it could play out given the actions being taken.
And the J.D. Vance nominated judge will say "not guilty!"...
This is a super interesting perspective.. but instead of only looking to the future, could we apply this to the past?
aka Were there predictions about global warming in 2015, 2000, or earlier that drove policy that ended up being incorrect?
If you think of any (societal) issue you care about, there's a good chance it would get solved with that tiny change
Not to mention its absence in a president's second term...
The specificity required of legislation to enact such a thing would be ridiculously un-tiny.
But, yes, it should be done, it should exist, it is the right thing to do, it is worth the effort.
A delicate issue I see is how to handle personal matters that the public don't need to know.
Anyhow, you might think that it's hard to know when someone is really lying vs just being uninformed, but in truth in the long term most lies become apparent; while you couldn't prevent every single lie, you'd reduce them enormously, in my opinion; even in countries where the president doesn't lie almost constantly.
But, how's that's going for us recently...
Donald Trump is 79. He can only be held accountable in the afterlife, if there is one.
Fox News literally had a segment on the difference between pedophilia and some other philia whose name I forget.. it was basically saying hey they weren’t 5, they were 14-16! That’s different! Wonder why they’d feel the need to air that viewpoint…
> Well they kind of are, in that the real perps are not them but folks like the Koch family who fund entire think tanks and counter programming to serve their narrow interests.
The Kochs also fund Nova on PBS which has produced and continues to produce a large amount of in-depth scientifically accurate reporting about climate change.
> People as a whole are not experts in every possible area, nor is everyone universally smart
But there are experts and there are smart people who write about what they experts say. Someone doesn't have to be either an expert themself or smart themself to realize that they should try to find what those experts and those smart people think in important areas so they can better choose politicians who will handle policy in those areas correctly.
A heck of a lot of voters put in less effort looking into competing claims of rival Presidential candidates than they do to check out the claims of rival manufacturers when they want to buy an air fryer.
Yes, the politicians that do bad things should be blamed, but I'm also going to blame the people who voted for them if the politicians said they would do those things and even a little research by the voter would have turned up that those things are bad.