Might be because it's an illusion designed to fool you into believing that you are in charge by voting for puppets every couple of years while obfuscating who are actually the puppet master.
And Hitler. And socialists and leftists. And...I'd say the communists, but they usually just murder everyone and take over.
Even if the solutions are retarded, things often get so bad people will jump to anyone promising any solution.
Society's a mess? Extremist religious traditionalism to the rescue! Society's a mess? Free shit and "caring about the people," to the rescue! Society's a mess? Authoritarian crackdown on the Bad People, to the rescue! Society's a mess? Murder everyone and take over!
I...I don't think I like Democracy™...
Might be because it's an illusion designed to fool you into believing that you are in charge by voting for puppets every couple of years while obfuscating who are actually the puppet master.
I'm starting to understand how the Taliban won elections.
And Hitler. And socialists and leftists. And...I'd say the communists, but they usually just murder everyone and take over.
Even if the solutions are retarded, things often get so bad people will jump to anyone promising any solution.
Society's a mess? Extremist religious traditionalism to the rescue! Society's a mess? Free shit and "caring about the people," to the rescue! Society's a mess? Authoritarian crackdown on the Bad People, to the rescue! Society's a mess? Murder everyone and take over!
It's stupid but, as you say, understandable.
And now you know the answer to Fermi's paradox.