General Politics Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Well, until now.

I agree generally though, he exceeded the exceedingly low bar.

Do you mean by loosening restrictions? I agree more care is probably appropriate, but I don’t think he’s pandering specifically to extremists in his party: I think the zeitgeist is now in favour of opening, and unless it gets really bad, we’re unlikely to see many more precautions.

The zeitgeist is defined in large part to what is actually happening. While yes, I think there's lots of blame to go around for this bad situation, a leader absolutely *COULD* have made different choices and inspired people to accept better decisions.

That being said, I don't think it's a coincidence that a violent occupation calling for the end of masking and vaccination mandates that was explicitly supported by conservatives as well as tacitly supported by the media demanded this, and it's exactly what  is happening.

Honestly, I'm as anti-establishment as I've ever been these days...I think almost all of our systems, are broken and even corrupt, to a shocking level.

This one might be more idiocy than corruption.