> You discount the notion that... I don't. > I suspect the driving factor here is the size of the unemployed workforce, not the need for money And the differ

> You discount the notion that... I don't. > I suspect the driving factor here is the size of the unemployed workforce, not the need for money And the difference is? Fundamentally people work to pay bills. > aren't policy or cultural problems State is policy and human society is culture. You seem to think the latter terms imply some innate quality absent in the former, but they both change, and that is because they are one in the same. Both have changed rapidly, and it's called history. > "the majority" is measured in terms of power, not votes. You're describing corrupt nations. This is blatantly anti-democratic, and there are too many people working to change this in America who have already succeeded to bring us to where we are today, and who will continue to succeed to help build a better tomorrow. Limiting power is not ideal. Power does not need to be contaminated or broken, and presuming that part of it will never change is discrediting everyone that got us here. It's okay not to be satisfied because that is what will take us even further. But we're not Brazil. And their problems won't go away just by limiting power of government.