I don’t have much of a problem either way as I don’t think I’ll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That’s fine. There’s clearly a more liberal audience here and that’s okay. I just don’t want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.

Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I’m new here.

Edit: Thanks for the rational replies. I was expecting to get lit up for even mentioning this topic lol.

  •  Piers   ( @Piers@beehaw.org ) English
    4•1 year ago

    I can’t point at a single member of our government who supports what they’re doing because it’s what they genuinely believe to be the right thing to do.

    While I may just not be well enough informed, I’m pretty sure Ben Wallace sincerely believes that providing support for Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion is in the best long-term interests of the UK (whether you personally agree with him that it does or not.)

    I do agree that most of the members of recent UK government’s have been largely preoccupied with projects that directly benefit them (or people funding them) at the cost of the nation and the world and anything other than their own personal self-interests.

    It’s worth trying to be aware of the areas where that isn’t the case as best as possible. If nothing else as important practise for trying to pick out the few buried nuggets of good from the next government…

    •  Nanokindled   ( @Nanokindled@beehaw.org ) English
      2•1 year ago

      Very well said. It’s also always helpful to focus on specific examples or - if you want to generalize - on particular studies or election results or whatever. Broad assertions are often too broad to be useful (he said, asserting broadly lol).