David Nabhan says:

The body can mistake toxic lead for calcium so those born between 1950-80 contain 1,000 times as much lead as an ancient Egyptian, much of it from leaded gas that remedied engine knocks. The point? Government used to fix problems but aside from inventing ludicrous pronouns, cow fart angst, and pregnant man emojis and tackling "racist!" math, during the collapse of society over the last two years they’ve built back nothing—and certainly not better. They go in November.

Tim adds:

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse doe to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler

Government is of no value because too many in our society figured this out. And too many corrupt, self-seeking people now occupy positions of authority as a result.

They are playing for the special interests now with no concern of actually solving real problems.

Aristotle believed democracy descended into a tyranny of special interests. Plato warned it inevitably led to oligarchy (rule by a few for their own benefit) which ended in chaos. We are in the oligarchical stage now.

We implemented democracy in the 20th century. It was always about making it easy to vote, and about making all institutions democratic. Now America is dominated by uber-wealthy oligarchs and a bunch of radicals culled from the lower classes, those who live off the taxes paid by the Middle Class. We are at Tytler's point where power blocks vote themselves largess from the treasury and at the same time where the rich vote themselves tax dollars from the Middle Class.

This won't end well.

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