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The trend I see is one of many people expressing their experiences and views on the DWP/Government policy and actions which have been ruled in a court of law to be illegal and discriminatory.
The trend tends to be the majority calling out the DWP and the Government for it's failures and actions, while a minority try to defend the indefensible because it goes counter to their own political ideologies.
Most people found it disgusting and reprehensible that Iain Duncan Smith refused to provide information on the number of people who had been ruled fit to work yet died within a year, especially since he openly lied in parliament declaring that the information didn't exist, because it didn't support his own ideological agenda.
There are those who are willing to ignore, dismiss or accept the pain and suffering of others as justifiable collatoral if it means being able to plough on with ideological changes they believe will be for the best in the end.
Even when time and time again, those ideological changes end up merely making the situation worse both economically and socially, they refuse to accept that it is a flaw in their ideology. True believers convince themselves that it's merely the fault of poor implementation, not being tough enough or external forces like the socialists and bleeding heart liberals undermining everything that made it fail.
Why do true believers convince themselves so easily ? because they are emotionally and personally invested in their beliefs to the point of making sense of the world, their own value, worth and quality both individually and as a measure of their moral status.
Very few people want to feel like or especially be thought of as an arsehole, so it's unsurprising how far many people will go to convince themselves that their actions, beliefs and how that has potentially effected their interactions and judgments of others are justified, good and morally sound.
It's like complaining about how the chap down the road is disgusting, antisocial and uncaring because his house was painted bright pink and stood out like a sore thumb, that his garden was always a mess and he never picked up the litter that was clearly all over the place ..... then finding out he was a blind veteran who won medals for bravery, his wife had died and he didn't know his house was painted pink, couldn't see the rubbish and everyone was too snobbish and cruel to bother talking to him, prefering to just complain about him to each other.
Not many people would want to admit they were wrong and cruel, so they just convince themselves that it wasn't their fault, the council or someone should have done something about it, probably due to a lack of funding because they spent too much money tarting up that council estate and providing services to immigrants from 'our' council tax..... |
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Author: leamspaceman
26-11-2019 02:29:19