Why is anyone surprised that so many Americans believe corruption is pervasive, every system is rigged, and the powerful are conspiring against them? They've been told all their lives that every system MUST be rigged, in order to achieve "social justice."
We middle-aged folks might dimly remember a time when prejudice was considered universally wrong and equal treatment was the highest virtue, but the younger generations are taught every day that "equality" is a scam by the privileged to retain their ill-gotten power.
Today Americans are explicitly taught that every scale must have thumbs on it, every test must be rigged and slanted, and every decision must be prejudiced in order to redistribute power and wealth, correct past injustices, and achieve "equity."
The message of the "equity" movement is that unbiased treatment is actually biased. Only the wise masters of the State can engineer true fairness by redistributing opportunity and predetermining outcomes. It's the point of that idiotic cartoon with people standing on boxes.
And of course, on the other hand, the clients of the Left's deranged redistribution movements have been taught their entire lives that everything was historically rigged against THEM, so now everything must be rigged in their favor to correct centuries of "systemic racism."
The thing about teaching people that everything has to be rigged for their benefit to achieve cosmic "fairness" is that they learn EVERYTHING IS RIGGED. They're taught corruption is virtuous when the "right people" do it. It makes them deeply cynical, not idealistic.
That's why it's so strange when studies revealing widespread cynicism and paranoia are treated like shocking news - as if the respondents have some deep misunderstanding that must be fixed with better messaging. No, they're CORRECT, and you elites taught them to be cynical.
Almost every system surrounding Americans today - increasingly including politicized corporations in the nominally private sector - is rigged, fixed, slanted, and biased. Everything is programmed to achieve predetermined "virtuous" group outcomes by treating individuals unfairly.
And that supposedly high-minded systemic corruption creates plenty of opportunities for good old-fashioned pocket-lining corruption. The funny thing about a system that no longer idealizes equal treatment is that it normalizes all sorts of cheating, including grubby theft.
Notice how the Left is increasingly hostile toward the concept of presumed innocence. It is entirely rational to believe systems that presume guilt - the core concept driving left-wing "systemic racism" policies - are actively hostile toward individuals. They ARE out to get you.
If our "guilt" is not determined by our own actions - if we're not judged by what we do as individuals, but by what the groups we belong to did before we were born - then it's reasonable to wonder what new "crimes" we'll be deemed guilty of tomorrow. It will never be over.
Today we're being told that even speech itself must be rigged and fixed - the opportunities to speak must be controlled and redistributed by State-industry cabals to promote correct thinking and combat "disinformation." Even the dice of free speech must be loaded.
You can't tell people that everything must be fixed to achieve "justice" - capitalism itself must go because its outcomes can't be properly controlled by our betters - and be surprised when they come away with the message "everything is rigged." /end
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