The Uniparty's Dirty Game: Create a Problem to Solve a Problem
The insanity of trusting the Dems and GOP to solve the problems they have created.
How is it that our government, a system of institutions specifically designed to solve problems, often preserves and even worsens the problems they are supposed to solve?!?
One potential explanation worth unraveling is the Shirky Principle, which suggests governments are more interested in protecting problems than solving them. Seems crazy. But crazy rules the day in our current political landscape.
In my latest podcast episode, we will break down a hilarious example of the shirky principle involving a case of an Ontario-based carpooling site, PickUpPal.com, which was forced to shut down by the Canadian government not because it failed but because it was too efficient! Yeah, it actually happened.
Let’s Talk About it together! Listen to my podcast on the Shirky Principle and government corruption.
You can also listen to this episode of the Intellectual Freedom Podcast on all major streaming services, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
We will dissect the costly and often inefficient mechanisms of our government. Examples abound of how our government throws billions of dollars at problems that are never solved and often create worse problems in the process.
We will call out our dear politicians on both the left and right, Team Red and Blue. However, in their defense, it isn’t always malice or evil they screw things up so badly.
Sometimes, it is mere stupidity and incompetence how our politicians and bureaucrats go about solving problems.
Brace yourselves as we scrutinize the colossal amount of funds funneled into sectors like the war on drugs, education, the military, and pandemic relief, with little to no palpable results. We will also look at how The United States simultaneously pledged billions to Israel for war and Palestine for aid. Money to bomb and destroy and rebuild, all proclaimed within days of each other. As thinking people, it is important to call into question these decisions as we ponder who the real beneficiaries of this funding are.
Closing the episode, we scrutinize the deteriorating trust of the public in their government to solve problems and their motives in taking on issues.
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
~Henry David Thoreau
It’s a stark reality that politicians from both ends of the spectrum, the Democrats and the Republicans, often create problems only to present themselves as the solution.
Can we really hope for change when the same forces that created the problems continue to wield control and claim to be the solutions?
This episode promises to push you out of your comfort zone, compelling you to question the status quo and critically evaluate government actions.