Thread by @l78lancer

Funny little story - Politicians, particularly conservatives, pretend they're afraid of true democracy because of "mob rule," as if it wasn't a mob we saw in action on 1/6 with our own eyes. But they continue to work hard to tell us that we didn't actually see what we really saw.

The fact is unless they're inherently evil, mobs tend to not erupt unless the individuals forming the mob are deprived of what they need. But politicians, particularly conservatives, tend to be more about money, power, and influence than action.

But, mostly money.

They know from the beginning that they have no intentions of providing much of what the people want, including to those who vote for them. So they come up with all kinds of stuff - excuses and distractions - like austerity, budget cuts, "small government," fiscal conservatism...

...supply-side economics, and bizarre tax policy, when in reality they're projecting, deflecting and gaslighting the proletariat in the name of policy and ideology for not meeting their needs. It's a governance scheme of non-governance set up for failure to perform by design.

The result is they need to perpetuate their lies and look over their shoulders because their constituents will be mad as hell, and looking for someone to blame.

It's easy then to blame policies that were never going to work on the opposition who knew that they wouldn't, but conservative voters aren't interested in understanding why.

So the opposition gets painted with sabotage, or worse, because it's simpler (although lazy and intellectually dishonest) to vilify the opposition for telling the truth and not supporting the schemes in the first place, than to hold the politicians accountable for failing.

And while the above may sound cynical or even craven, history has borne out that it's more true than not. All one needs to ask is what conservative policies have worked in the past 100 years...of for that matter, ever? And, who have conservative voters historically blamed?

But, in the final analysis, instead of the fear, paranoia, subterfuge, and lying, wouldn't it be easier reduce, if not eliminate, all alleged concerns about mobs and mob rule if they simply did the jobs they were elected to do?

Oh, and accepted responsibility? And left lobbyists money on the table? And worried less about appeasing donors. And...

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