Comment by 💎 pista

Government is a joke. You won’t fix government without fixing voters. If that’s your goal, then just lead by example and stop worrying about it.

2024-12-22 · 1 year ago

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We get the government we deserve, always. That people keep getting PO'ed at the government doing nothing, and keep electing do nothing politicians who just want to personally benefit from their position, occasionally throwing out some wedge issue to keep the electorate engaged and enraged. You don't fix it with a single charismatic candidate. You fix it systemically, in Congress. Americans do not take that candidate seriously. This is how you get AOCs and MTGs. It's also a problem of numbers. In 1929 the Permanent Apportionment Act fixed the number of congressional seats. House members represent more people over time with about 57000 per seat in 1789 to 747000 per seat now. Your voice is drowned out more and more.

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"News" of Biden's incompetence is appearing in mainstream... — Who's been running the US for the last few years? This is complete banana republic stuff -- a figurehead that had "bad days" as early as 2021... Who is spending trillions of dollars, pardoning people, selling steel slated for the wall for 5 cents on the dollar, and starting wars in multiple countries? WTF?