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It's not America that causes these types of problems, its our banking military industrial complex.

DrScientist 4y ago
Let me be clear - I'm not blaming American's per se ( though they do share some of the blame - the idea that America can do no wrong because it's America, is surprisingly pervasive even among highly educated people ). I think it's quite clear that democracy is failing in the US - why else would you have father and son or husband and wife as presidents or almost presidents. Clearly the statistical chance of them being the best on merit is quite slim. So yes there is institutional capture. It's not all bad though - the US is very dynamic country, there is a chance of change.
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- toomim 4y ago
  But the same thing happens in sports. In basketball, Dell Curry led to Seth Curry and Steph Curry, and the latter just broke the 3-point record. That's merit.
  - mandmandam 4y ago
    Americans compare politics to sports all the time, and it's bizarre. I get it - we have only two teams that are really allowed to participate. Decisions all boil down to 'our team wins' or 'their team wins' 99% of the time. Like basketball, or football, or baseball, or tennis, etc. But the notion that W and Hillary earned their positions on merit, like Steph Curry did, is astounding. That's hilarious that anyone can say that with a straight face. Hillary was the second most detested politician in America, second only to Trump - who she deliberately elevated for that exact reason.
  - DrScientist 4y ago
    Eh? You think George W Bush inherited the 'good at being president' genes from his father? And how do you explain Hilary? In my view what George W inherited was power and connections. Countries were power is inherited, rather than earned aren't typically viewed as democracies.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
  I wonder wether a democracy should make intervention wills. As in, if i ever go below this or that treshold, i want democratic neighbours to restore the nation. Or have a backUp Voting system, that if people do not show up to a vote in full majority autorestores a constitution.
  - nradov 4y ago
    The US Constitution does sort of have a back-up voting system in that it allows a supermajority of states to convene a new constitutional convention and rewrite the document however they like.
    - qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
      Imagine a constitution under git history, having a hard reset to a previous "tag", by majority absent vote to uphold it.

Let me be clear - I'm not blaming American's per se ( though they do share some of the blame - the idea that America can do no wrong because it's America, is surprisingly pervasive even among highly educated people ). I think it's quite clear that democracy is failing in the US - why else would you have father and son or husband and wife as presidents or almost presidents. Clearly the statistical chance of them being the best on merit is quite slim. So yes there is institutional capture. It's not all bad though - the US is very dynamic country, there is a chance of change.

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toomim 4y ago
But the same thing happens in sports. In basketball, Dell Curry led to Seth Curry and Steph Curry, and the latter just broke the 3-point record. That's merit.
- mandmandam 4y ago
  Americans compare politics to sports all the time, and it's bizarre. I get it - we have only two teams that are really allowed to participate. Decisions all boil down to 'our team wins' or 'their team wins' 99% of the time. Like basketball, or football, or baseball, or tennis, etc. But the notion that W and Hillary earned their positions on merit, like Steph Curry did, is astounding. That's hilarious that anyone can say that with a straight face. Hillary was the second most detested politician in America, second only to Trump - who she deliberately elevated for that exact reason.
- DrScientist 4y ago
  Eh? You think George W Bush inherited the 'good at being president' genes from his father? And how do you explain Hilary? In my view what George W inherited was power and connections. Countries were power is inherited, rather than earned aren't typically viewed as democracies.
qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
I wonder wether a democracy should make intervention wills. As in, if i ever go below this or that treshold, i want democratic neighbours to restore the nation. Or have a backUp Voting system, that if people do not show up to a vote in full majority autorestores a constitution.
- nradov 4y ago
  The US Constitution does sort of have a back-up voting system in that it allows a supermajority of states to convene a new constitutional convention and rewrite the document however they like.
  - qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
    Imagine a constitution under git history, having a hard reset to a previous "tag", by majority absent vote to uphold it.