• intensely_human
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    4 months ago

    Not really, because the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote. There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

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      4 months ago

      the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote

      Not in the US, it isn’t.

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      4 months ago

      There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

      Do you think anti-government sentiment makes people less apathetic? I don’t mean fringes on Facebook, I mean regular people who work and pay their bills and have an hour to get whatever news they can before they sleep and do it all over again.