And with very good reason. Institutional failures get fixed but cynicism and distrust, which are anathema to a healthy democracy, fester and multiply.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1224764645333966849 …
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That's not true generally. Conspiracism may not flourish to the same degree when everything runs smoothly, but it's a constant. Fluoride works wonders. Vaccines save lives. Those aren't institutional failures.
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What we've seen is that once unleashed, resolving the institutional failures does little or nothing to reel in the conspiracism. It's like a Pandora's Box opening up to the irrationally fearful part of our brains. It becomes a destructive force unto itself, immune to fixes.
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