[teravor]

forcing citizens to buy goods which are adversarial to them with their own money is rarely a good idea.

paradoxically, citizens expect the government to be adversarial towards them in big things (see America) but it's the 'little' things which breed true contempt.

sooner or later something will happen which will test the revealed preference of the population and everyone will suddenly discover that contempt is all that's left.

[aenis]

Yes. Absolutely yes. And I think this is why people vote for things like brexit, or really-obviously-bad-politicians. This is the only way in which they can pay back the many things the reasonable, progressive governments "gave" them. Stupid beeps included. I swear to god, I hate right wing populists, but I'd at least be inclined to vote for a party that promised to fight back those stupid systems.

[Otterly99]

Why should right wing populism be the alternative thought? Couldn't we have a decent alternative?

[aenis]

The populists are the only one raising this issue. So, yeah.