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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I choose not to believe that is humans natural path.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can deny it, but have you really thought about it.

Think about American Politics. "Well conservatives are just fascists." Sure, I mean there's the party that wants to control what people say, Cancelling them if they ever said anything they don't like. Want to remove all rights from people in specific parties, and mandate how others act at all times... and then there's the republicans which are also clearly fascists.

I'm not trying to say "Republicans are better than Democrats" they're not, they're clearly not. But Democrats aren't that good either. It's a problem with a desire to control others and when one party wins, they should feel they have a mandate to GOVERN but instead there's a feeling they have a mandate to RULE or CONTROL. Luckily most politicians are somewhat sane about this, but god damn, some of the die hards on both sides have lost their mind.

Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely. That's kind of a fact of being human.

[–] possum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Can you give an example outside American politics?