• CaptainProton@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Your post implies that government is good by default.

    There’s hiding bad activity the government was elected to perform, like intelligence meddling in foreign affairs to protect the country’s interests, and there’s hiding activity to shield themselves from voter accountability, like using the apparatus to enrich other parts of government at a direct cost to its own citizens, or shield malicious actors from accountability.

    They do lots of both, so why trust by default?

    • null@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      Your post implies that government is good by default.

      Not really. It just deals with the reality of the here and now.