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No one ever talks about how politicians used to be able to meet the public without the world's greatest security detail to protect them.

submitted by IwuvU to TellUpgoat 3.5 yearsJan 7, 2022 01:46:27 ago (+7/-0)     (TellUpgoat)

And we can never go back.

But why?

People were armed then.

But it wasn't a guaranteed thing that if a prominent politician spoke to the public that he/she would get shot. Nowadays it wouldn't matter if we literally elected Jesus, someone would shoot him. Are the people in our society morally deficient compared to the past or has the government grown too big to represent the people or is it something else?



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[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 3.5 yearsJan 7, 2022 04:44:59 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] dulcima 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 7, 2022 04:09:18 ago (+2/-0)

A British politician, out meeting the public, was recently stabbed by a somalian.

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 7, 2022 11:23:41 ago (+2/-0)

Part and parcel...

[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 7, 2022 09:31:07 ago (+2/-0)

The politicians are more hated because they're nothing but greedy, self interested opportunists. It wasn't always like that. Today every single one of them is better used as food for a grizzly bear than as a public servant. They really and truly do not serve the public. They try to control, they lecture and harangue the public and think the public is there to serve them.