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Glenn Toddun's avatar

The Covid crisis hit everyone, so we got relief. The housing crisis hits the poor, no relief.

We need governance with a constituency of more than the donor class.

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Tom Wilson's avatar

Something is off and it always has been.

We live in a marketing society in which advertisers can make any exaggerated claim in order to sell a product. They are good at creating "need" for their product. What IS different, what has changed, is marketers have taken over the political process advising politicians to make nonsensical statements that appeal to a consumer group. It doesn't matter what side the party/candidate/spokesperson comes from, their task is to exaggerate or create idiotic statements that appeal.

And in the political market, there is no consumer protection as we, mistakenly, assume a periodic election is enough.

The lingering unforeseen result when such ideas are applied to the political, is the fractured society we have today as many are convinced that what I need is what an opponent withholds from me.

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