As I pointed out the vast majority of the public won't bother seeking that information out though. They need it screamed at them through bold newspaper headlines these days.
I agree it isn't hard to see the cracks behind the apparent 'success' in the data. To me that makes it all the more insulting, the fact that this government seemingly take us for fools. Then again as is often pointed out we have a leader with similar parallels to Trump in that he is blindly followed by his cult no matter what he does.
The above then goes back to my first sentence - for these cultists even a damning headline of statistical lies and obfuscation would be glossed over and dismissed as a mindless attack on their precious government.
I’m rather fond of the saying “the people get the leaders they deserve.”
If people are so disinterested and/or stupid that they can’t be bothered to apply a modicum of critical thinking then isn’t it obvious where most of the blame sits.
I recall a dissident escaping the old USSR commenting with a mixture of surprise and disappointment that the people in the UK were no different to the people back home. He had assumed that our open democratic system was because we actively fought for it and that was why we didn’t have a totalitarian one/party system.
Apparently it’s just luck and now here and elsewhere the wheel has spun and landed on a less desirable outcome. Temporary insanity or permanent madness?
As Joni Mitchell sang in a more idealistic time, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”
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