Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.
The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.
And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.
So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.
There are lots of good Americans, unfortunately though there are even more stupid/evil ones.
Accurate, but Neil Young is Canadian.
Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.
The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.
And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.
So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.
Also/or the stupid evil ones are -at the moment- far more motivated to fuck things up than the decent ones are to try to fix things.
It’s definitely an uphill battle to be a good American today.