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He also further spread anti-government sentiment which has made society far worse as people question everything about government and how it can help people.
Difference between holding government accountable and outright saying government is always the problem. The latter only creates apathy among voters.
You summarized it well.
Small recent example. General blanket distrust in government leads to unwillingness to trust governmental health experts, leading to making the covid pandemic worse than was necessary.
As was intended by those like Reagan.
You are literally repeating bullshit conservative misinformation.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/scicheck-what-weve-learned-about-so-called-lockdowns-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/
"I'm a data driven person... just look at this article from the sun that supports my position".
Whatever you saw is anecdotal. The antithesis of "data driven". Besides which, you've confused me with someone else.
There are a plethora of studies showing the efficacy of lockdowns.
Saying youre "data driven" while ignoring data. Having been an engineer doesn't imbue in you some magical objectivity that makes your conservative talking points infallible. Read the thorough analysis in the link I posted. You're repeating misinformation based on cherry-picked data.
Did you know that the Boost app lets you add tags to people's names?
lol
Not really, because the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote. There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.
Not in the US, it isn't.
Do you think anti-government sentiment makes people less apathetic? I don't mean fringes on Facebook, I mean regular people who work and pay their bills and have an hour to get whatever news they can before they sleep and do it all over again.