> honestly think people largely get what they deserve. >but sure, people still continue to vote in the corrupt and inept leaders. i live in a military state s

> honestly think people largely get what they deserve. >but sure, people still continue to vote in the corrupt and inept leaders. i live in a military state so i don't see much of "democracy". Many years ago, 1986 to be exact, people came out and there was a grassroots level movement for "rights" and people did lots of campaigning and the whole exercise of "elections" but the union government saw that as an attack on their iron grip and the elections were rigged. Since then, we've had elections in the last 20 odd years but EVERYONE in the elections process is inept and corrupt and a "paid shill". it really doesn't matter who we vote (we don't cast votes for that reason) because it is a bad choice vs bad choice. No one wants to "stand up" because the whole system locally and the overlords in the union government do NOT allow anyone who would threaten their control and their control means these corrupt people should remain in power. we've all but given up on this whole thing so yeah. It gets tiring. >We’ve decided to shun competence and embrace corruption…no surprise we’re seeing the results in a failed economy. we have only bad options so it is a pointless exercise "choosing between them" so we decide to forgo the whole sham exercise. well, that is just me so take whatever you can from this