No lol
I’m transgender, so, that would be a no from me
“Governments are just bodies of people, usually notably ungoverned.”
Literally nobody has ever said this lol
Haven’t talked to many billionaires then, they love how the government helps them.
You ad an individual no. You as a collective yes. What is good for the collective (society) may be individually good for you.
As a whole? No. Individuals within the government interacting with me? 40/60 chance against.
Sorry yall downvote away but I gotta bring up covid in this context. oh yeah sure, after decades of not giving two shits about us suddenly the government is concerned for our health and safety? No one else found that to be immediately sus as hell?
COVID politics was a shitshow because of the noisy information being used to make “informed” decisions. No democratic politician has it in their interest to drive their local economy into the ground, as it is political suicide (as we see across Europe now).
They never cared about YOUR health, they cared about not losing a generation worth of useful working bodies.
Government care that you are in the condition to pay as much taxes as possible. Which honestly is not bad, considering how selfish humans are…
I don’t think a government can “care”. A government is not a person. It doesn’t have a brain, thoughts, beliefs, or feelings. It has processes, laws, institutions, etc. which are all run by people.
I do think that most people who get involved in government are interested in making things better in their city, state, nation, etc.
However, their idea of “better” and mine might not agree: we might have different values.
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I would argue many people are initially interested in making things better, it’s just that power and lobbying have a tendency to corrupt people
Agreed except I’m not sure about "most. Maybe some.
I think not many lower level, a lot of the mid level then less of the high level officials care
I feel like, at the point at which becoming a politician became a dedicated career, things have taken a bit of a nosedive. You can go from school to retirement whilst only ever experiencing political jobs and nothing else that would inform your politics.
USA…government only cares about protecting corporate interests. Public safety and welfare is only considered when it can be used as a smokescreen to further corporate agenda. That’s what I think and you won’t talk me out of it.
No, our government only cares about profiting off the expense of other people and shilling out to corporations.
-Good ole US of A
No. They care about their interests. Hence I’m anti government
As another commenter mentioned, the government (the state) is not a person and cannot care.
Government and the state are tools. The thing about some tools is that they are really only useful towards certain ends. The state is fundamentally a tool of maintaining and expanding power. While it’s possible for those with power to do some good things, their overall effect is to allow the domination of most by the few.
Government requires a state to function, a state as in a subset of the population claiming exclusive acceptable use of force in a given area.
A government/country is an “it”, an abstract entity; it is not a living human being, and cannot “care” about anything.
People working in that government care may or may not care about you, enough to change the behaviour of that government in a way that benefits you. But odds are that they don’t.
And, just in case that the government in question is the one I pay taxes to (Brazil): the people in said government care about you as much as they care about a milking cow in a battery farm.
No, the purpose of government is to preserve what they deem as “order”. For example, the US government is trying to preserve its own existance and preserve the status quo. They conduct surveillance and interfere with extremist groups, both left and right (although they seem to target left-wing groups more often). Governments uphold core principles they value. In the US, the Constitution are those core principles, a Republic of the People that has varying degrees of democracy over time. In China, it’s Marxism-Leninism (although their ideology has been shifting to Maoism, Dengism, and now Xi-ism?). In many middle east countries, it’s Islamic Theocracy.
Governments with elements of democracy tend to “care about your best interests” more often than authoritarian ones, but its more about the core principles rather than the people running the government them selves. Over time, the people in government can shape it’s core principles.
In summary, governments uphold a set of core values that may or may not be in the interest of the people, depending on whether or not the core principles allign with the core principles of what the people believe.
