“The government has itself become a market. When government becomes the easiest way to make lots of money, rational actors will focus their time and energy on that market. It’s basic economics.”
Our Government has become little more than the Mafia on steroids.
If we don’t begin in November to start investigations and legal proceedings against the Bosses, Underbosses, Caporegimes, Consiglieres, and Soldiers presently running our Government…our Republic is lost.
But, I thought our Republic was lost decades ago. And... we never did get direct democracy, which was what the Peeps wanted way back in 1760. But I'm serious. We've watched a creeping coup d'etat that started in WWII, if not WWI. Did we EVER really have what we thought we had? Maybe. Maybe in those first years, before 1800. Sort of. But it's always been run by the Too Wealthy For Our Own Good. We started having a really great thing going in the 50's, and that had to be crushed. Viet Nam. The first really big, fat, sloppy sign that the wrong people were in charge... And now look at us.
But all that said... This is a good post. Didn't mean to say it isn't!
But, I thought our Republic was lost decades ago. And... we never did get direct democracy, which was what the Peeps wanted way back in 1760. But I'm serious. We've watched a creeping coup d'etat that started in WWII, if not WWI. Did we EVER really have what we thought we had? Maybe. Maybe in those first years, before 1800. Sort of. But it's always been run by the Too Wealthy For Our Own Good. We started having a really great thing going in the 50's, and that had to be crushed. Viet Nam. The first really big, fat, sloppy sign that the wrong people were in charge... And now look at us.
But all that said... This is a good post. Didn't mean to say it isn't!