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Public rarely consent with the government. Government keep its power with force. You need no less than revolution to change the government. Democracy mostly just shuffles names (ok, now it's your turn to rob those peons, colleague) but don't change the system.
Any peaceful transition of power seeks to maintain the status quo. Not sure if you meant to constrain this to Democracy or are just being specific to the case at hand.
Individual people do not get to withhold consent to be governed. Democracy just means that the collective consent of the people can be obtained through the vote rather than revolution.
I personally agree with you and i am reading this as they give you and illusion you have a choice by placing individuals who has a likeable face/utters the right words, and the people go along with it?
That's what it looks like at surface level....if so why do so many believe in it and keep on upholding it?
I keep hearing the same old answers people are indoctrinated, people are exhausted, people are scared, of what? what can be worse than this? I am not trying to fearmonger i think like many others i am trying to understand how it could become this.
Torture and death. And that's exactly what you get when you fail the revolution.
Or even if you just get unlucky during. Don't need it to fail to get jailed before the oppressors are ousted, or to be one of the piles of corpses from the fighting.
Can you seriously not look at some of the poorest areas of the world, compare them to the US, and see how big of a gap there is?
We don't ship our children off to literally live onsite at a factory in company housing. We don't have people building towns out of garbage on top of garbage dumps because there's so many of them with no place to go.
Those are just the two most immediate examples I can think of. Even compared to ourselves a few decades ago, on one level things are downright decadent here. Smart phones, the quality of vehicles, the ability to have food from roughly anywhere just brought to you in what amounts to a private taxi.
In a lot of ways, things keep getting better.
If you put your head in the sand and ignore the rot at the top, the corruption throughout the economic system, and the dying ecosystem then it can be very easy to simply appreciate how good many aspects of life are.
And a lot of people have very busy lives. Hour long commute each way, 8 hour workday 5 days a week (sometimes more), raising a toddler, basic household upkeep, a few "extracurriculars" on the weekend like swim lessons for the toddler... I could go on but you get the picture. When am I supposed to even have time to get upset about this when most of it only ever effects me indirectly?
I'm not saying any of this is healthy or right. I'm just trying to lay out some things I think you're overlooking. Many people don't have the time or the emotional bandwidth for this. Also for many people, the bad still somehow does not out weigh the good.
It should be incredibly telling to anyone paying attention that it's taken the nearly undeniable proof that the ruling class is all pedos to start getting people talking about this shit more. A lot of the bad shit has been bad for ages. Ask why are people waking up now rather than why aren't more of them.