So it turns out that people who voted to hand over all of the power in all of our inter-departmental decisions to a single administrator did so because they didn’t have time to read the proposal and just voted “yes” mechanically. I have no idea how it makes sense to vote in favor of something when you have no idea what that something is. It would make a lot more sense to vote “no” on a new proposal with which you are unfamiliar if the current state of things seems to work.
I will never understand people. How did they know they were not voting “yes” to, say, having their salaries cut in half if they didn’t bother to read the proposal? Where is this unquestioning trust of authority coming from? Why do they automatically assume that everything done by an administrator is done solely for their benefit and can never be detrimental to them?
Hello, this is America. Aren’t we supposed to have an innate distrust of any authority?
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A similar problem seems to have been endemic in the Congress for quite some time.
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They reflexively overtrust authorities and then they become all distressed and proclaim they have been cheated once again. It’s all authoritarianism, even the rebellion that follows suit.
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Americans are one of those who trustthe most their authorities
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Americans are one of those who trust the most their authorities.
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Hello, this is America. Aren’t we supposed to have an innate distrust of any authority?(Clarissa)
Libertarians maybe, the right, a little, the left, not so much. 🙂
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I believe you wanted to say Democrats, the left would never trust a government like that.
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I guess minimizing the government is a logical way to reconcile belief in authority (which is technically a socially conservative thing) and the belief that no one can be trusted…
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This is very profound.
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All of my theorizing on their motivations was for naught because I forgot to factor in sheer stupidity….
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