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I think you're longing for a US that never was. Its always been about who has "the right power" and who doesnt. Everything from Mccarthyism to the Salem Witch
by CerealFounder 6y ago
I think you're longing for a US that never was. Its always been about who has "the right power" and who doesnt. Everything from Mccarthyism to the Salem Witch Hunt.
it also stands to be said that America doesnt exist as America, instead as a revolving door of loosely defined groups that step up to the levers of power and try their luck.
Its best to understand the actors instead of the machine. Its most often where the problem is.
- aqme28 6y agoI don't follow. You're saying that America has always been this way, yet the problem is not the system itself, but the specific people in power today?
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoI think OP may have stopped one or more causal links short of the systemic issue. In general, politics is vulnerable to actors who work in bad faith. You can blame the current power-hungry narcissistic wealthy sociopaths who are doing what power-hungry narcissistic wealthy sociopaths can be expected to do, or you can accept that there will always be people who fit that description and try to fix the incentives and checks that they're responding to.