>Over the past decades the US has adopted a strategy of printing money which is a very bad sign in a leading economic power. Are you kidding? If you have to pr

>Over the past decades the US has adopted a strategy of printing money which is a very bad sign in a leading economic power. Are you kidding? If you have to print unbounded money, your economy is shit. No country that has done that has remained a "leading economic power" for long. >I can see why people would be dissatisfied by democracy right now; I certainly am. Democracy (any flavor) vs other systems is a red herring. When shit isn't working people look at the wrong things. At the end of the day, they chose to buy cheap goods and import everything vs. a more balanced protectionist approach. We can point fingers at corporations profiting from that but they couldn't actually force people to destroy their own country. What I'm trying to say here is that no system of government can work if people are fundamentally unwise or immoral. An authoritarian system would not be better than what we have, because shit usually rises to the top.