• skulkingaround
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    Important to note here, the status quo is the status quo for a reason. Incremental evidence based change happens slowly. It cannot happen fast, and that’s good. Slow is stable. The clear vision is “the system we have but marginally better tomorrow. And then the day after tomorrow, marginally better than that.” It’s foolish to vote for anyone who promises drastic change, left, right, up, or down. It’s a trick. It’s like changing 5 variables at once in a science experiment and expecting any sort of result better than random chance. We don’t have a perfect system but rolling the dice on a wannabe fascist dictator is obviously not the way forward if you have two brain cells to run together, but an alarming amount of people seem to just not get it.

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      Just look at history though and you’ll see that most significant changes (both bad and good) happen abruptly and it’s often a bit messy.

      Unfortunately it’s just the way that humans work

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        Exactly. It’s like the (apocryphal?) quote.

        There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

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      That does not reflect history at all. Changes are often big, sudden, and violent. They may simmer for years before hand but they go off fast.

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      That’s only helpful if you feel like there have actually been improvements over the last few years/decades.

      A lot of people feel like crime is constantly rising, morals in general are not being valued anymore and that the economy is constantly in decline. Mixed with a widespread believe that most politicians are bought anyways.

      These feelings aren’t rooted in facts but they are there and they make it difficult to simultaneously believe in gradual improvement.