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In reply to the discussion: Can we at least not cheer for concentration camps to "teach minorities a lesson" [View all]Sympthsical
(10,238 posts)I do not identify with power. Power is intended to serve, to be held accountable. It is how a healthy democracy functions and how political entities change and evolve to better serve the people.
Protection of power, deference to it, failure to criticize or hold accountable in any real way gives little incentive to change, to reflect, or to serve.
Telling people they are doing fabulously, no notes, no matter how poorly it is clearly going for us is a path to diminished power and diminished ability to serve the people.
Your viewpoint has won out since 2016.
Look where we are.
If this moment in time is not a clarion call to change this inverted posture of protecting privilege over people, then things cannot and will not improve. I've heard your viewpoint, I've seen your viewpoint take precedence in practice this entire past decade.
It has failed. And it has no power anymore. Grouse about it at will, but facts are unchangeable things and this deference is over, realized or not.