Thank you, that's also one of my peeves.
replyInterestingly, the people who try to separate themselves from "the government" also seem to be the kind of people who want to "spread our model of democracy to the rest of the world".
How they can even reconcile being such a great democracy that the world needs to ~copy~ be force-fed with having an adversary government I don't know. The cognitive dissonance is so great that it's hard to fathom.
It's all such a self-defeating ideology, they think the government isn't doing a good enough job, so they lobby to make it impossible for them to do a good job and then pretend that it proves their point.
reply> IMO wherever someone says "the government" we should mentally substitute "we all, collectively".
replyNo, we should substitute "unaccountable bureaucrats". The people who enter and leave power from elections are not the source of the daily frustrations people have with government, it's the rest.
how do you think that alleged amorphous mass of unaccountable bureaucrats got their jobs?
replyIf this is in fact an issue where you life, then you should consider stopping to elect politicians that allow bureaucrats to be unaccountable. Or stop believing politicians who rave on about how bureaucrats are unaccountable while they themselves have the power to shape systems where that would not be the case.
reply"we all" is wrong, always.
replyYou do not agree with me. You can't claim to have my interests or my will if you are against it.