I live in Ohio 45 minutes north of the train derailment. There is no chernobyl going on within 100 mile radius.The site is contaminated it’s been contained people have been allowed home days ago. pic.twitter.com/ieAIHvchyW— CCG Melissa (@patriot_melissa) February 13, 2023
Not through any of its crimes against humanity, its failure to provide a decent life for its citizens, but through drinking the individualist kool-aid to such an extent, its populace becomes ungovernable?
Chicken vs egg. The failure to provide a decent life encourages the toxic individualism. When you’ve literally never had a positive interaction with the government, and never seen government services do anything but fail or make people’s lives worse, people lose trust in the government and won’t even listen when it’s needed.
You need to have years of actually assisting people and courting trust through smaller everyday programs in order to have the social capital to do things like evacuations or pandemic prevention.
Chicken vs egg. The failure to provide a decent life encourages the toxic individualism. When you’ve literally never had a positive interaction with the government, and never seen government services do anything but fail or make people’s lives worse, people lose trust in the government and won’t even listen when it’s needed.
You need to have years of actually assisting people and courting trust through smaller everyday programs in order to have the social capital to do things like evacuations or pandemic prevention.