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'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.