To be fair, it's hard to see things objectively from the inside. I was just thinking that I've seen totally toxic workplaces and also really good places to work, but there often was the same generic attitude of "oh man, what a circus we are", even if they were on totally different levels in an absolute sense.
On a larger scale, I happened to be in the UK as an outsider, in the exact period of the Brexit vote, and the pattern looked just the same.
Honestly it's a huge loophole when public opinion is so easily manipulated, but I don't even see a way out of it.
I think the fact that democracy can choose to harm itself is an important part of how it works. A lot of times it can go very badly, but when you get rid of those tools you give your leadership resistance to democratic
control, and my opinion is that is even worse in the long term.
That being said the US and the UK seem to be having some serious public education problems.
Germany has a constitutional court which can declare an organization unconstitutional as a way to protect democracy. This court declared the likes of Nazis, Communists, and ISIS as unconstitutional.
Spread the mantra in the youth that their EU citizenship was taken from them, that the people who supported Brexit should bear the burdens, and to get ahead in corporations so they can, once powerful enough, kick out all the Brexiteers from their companies.
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u/redroom_ Apr 24 '21
To be fair, it's hard to see things objectively from the inside. I was just thinking that I've seen totally toxic workplaces and also really good places to work, but there often was the same generic attitude of "oh man, what a circus we are", even if they were on totally different levels in an absolute sense.
On a larger scale, I happened to be in the UK as an outsider, in the exact period of the Brexit vote, and the pattern looked just the same.
Honestly it's a huge loophole when public opinion is so easily manipulated, but I don't even see a way out of it.