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I don't know if it's pessimism or realism, but i think the problem with our system, or any political-socio-economic system in general is that it is run by humans. I'm certainly not the first to express it, but i subscribe to the belief that any system created by and for humanity eventually falls victim to a certain portion of the population that figures out how to game the system and acquire much more in the way of resources than it actually deserves. I think that any system we can come up with is doomed to fail from the outset due to the simple fact that humanity isn't capable of stable long term self-government.
I think that the current state of american politics is just another example of our impending self destruction. Whether america can overcome this impending descent into mediocrity i think will depend on who picks up the pieces. Given that most of our current leaders subscribe to an ideology whose very centerpiece is a prophecy of the apocalypse, i can only hope that someone else steps to the plate.
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