And I think that we see this a lot with NGO's. That go into, you know, I'm going to build a school in Haiti. And it ends up being a disaster, and the school that ends up being built goes to, you know somebody who is politically connected but possibly has mafia connections and is not going to actually be a school. And there are a lot of ways that government sort of encourages this, throw money down a, a sink hole I guess.
You look at other examples, I think particularly Africa, Zimbabwe, and other examples where socialism just seemed like a horror show, and a way for people to, you know even if they initially during the time of independence in Africa during the 1960s, even if it was initially to try to, meet particular social goals. Like to try to reach particular tribes, or to try to otherwise elevate indigenous African people, over white colonialists. It quickly became a way to keep the people who are in power in power. And I think that you saw that, as there were people who were elected, quote unquote, initially in the sixties, when theses countries became independent, and stayed in power for the next few decades till they died.
That to me, suggests that socialist goals are not really, the primary or pro social goals, are not really the primary reason for having that particular government. That is just to keep people entrenched in power positions.
So I guess that's the, good thing about democracy. But I do think that democracy's bad in that there is mob mentality. I mean I, I think most people don't really remember this. I was just watching re runs from Saturday Night Live, in the, the original show, the show had been originally aired in 2001, late 2001. So you can imagine what was going on right? September 11th, the Iraqi War, and they had George Bush, and they weren't making fun of him. They had him giving a speech and talking about how he was going to go and find every last terrorist and kill them. And the crowd was cheering, and it was like everybody thinking, "Yes, this is exactly what we're all going to do, is let's go find terrorists and kill them". And that was sort of the mentality, like yes, let's go, let's go start a war and let's track these people down and let's get them.
And it seemed so starkly different to the portrayals of George Bush in the later, you know 2006 to 2008 Saturday Night Live skits, in which he was portrayed as being this horrible person, that did all of these horrible things. You know there was a lot of flip flopping from the general population of being very supportive of George W Bush, and then eventually saying, "No we didn't support this at all".
And we saw it in our legislative branches too, Senators and Representatives who had supported the Iraqi War, and then later changed their mind. Or that was a problem for them, because they originally supported them, because there was such public support, and then they had to change their mind once the public support went away.
So I think the public can be really fickle, and can have a short term memory, and be really subject to mob mentality. And as a, as a whole get caught up in emotions. And pursue things that are not smart, they don't act rationally, and they just follow their emotions. And the, their emotions lead them to all sorts of different problematic places.
Rob Kall: So that's a problem with democracy?
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