Comment by Abe11 on Why isn’t assassination/sabotage more common? · 2020-08-02T17:30:11.567Z · LW · GW

Because if you have the kind of intelligence and common sense to clearly see and care about the wrongdoings of politicians, this same intelligence would suggest the idea, that ending the life of one or several of the endless supply political miscreants, would be fruitless. The reward would not balance out the risk. Killing a person is possible but killing stupidity and/or evil is impossible because it is a scale.

The only hope seems to be to continue to permit these self-centered, ego-inflated, ignorant (or often intentionally evil) politicians to publicly broadcast their stupidity, and cruelty so all people can easily see their true colors and promptly dismiss anything they say or do as incoherent babble and self-aggrandizing actions.