Russia hacked our elections. All US intelligence agencies confirm that. But the success of the hack has more to do with the moral rot of our own institutions than the savviness of Russian programmers. We have a 2-party system and neither party has any real commitment to solving society's ailments, and so people have no real commitment to the integrity of our politics.
On one side you have the Republicans who have decided that the political passions of its base are steeped in covert racial bias and discrimination. In order to maintain power, they have committed to the propaganda of outright lies and misstatements. They knowingly promote policies which put kids in cages, deport people back to their country to be murdered, disenfranchise black voters, incentivize polluters/mucrackers/con artist evangelicals, and the worst players in our culture. Once you have a party that has decided to systemically lie about facts to its citizens, there is very little difference between taking its own lies or adopting those of Russian intelligence. A lie is a lie...and any lie will do if it serves the purpose of continuing to trigger fear/terror and mistrust in an aging white population.
On the other side, you have the Dems who are mostly own by corporate America (as opposed to Republicans who are entirely owned). With the exception of Bernie Sanders, all the Dem presidential frontrunners are backed by billionaires who are committed to maintaining inequality and suffering. Our healthcare system is THE worst in the Western World. The worst. Full stop. It criminalizes sickness, punishes weakness, leads to tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year. Dems know this, corporations know this, insurance companies know this. They either are unwilling to change or don't care about Americans dying. The explosion in student loans is robbing future generations and -once again- everyone knows that these things are very bad and 100% preventable. But there is no willingness to do anything. There is almost an enraging impotence of leadership on the left.
This is how societies die from internal corruption. On one side you have the crooks, and the other side you have the people who should know better...but don't have the energy to do anything substantial. At a certain point, the people stop believing in the community principles, and the gates to the city are open so the invaders can rush in to plunder everything. The political process becomes an entertaining empty spectacle. Presidents dance for votes, sing for likes, seriousness is seen as a flaw because there is no belief that anything substantial can be accomplished by the serious men of policy. We live in the age of clowns, tap dancers, and karaoke singers.
The Republican party has opened the gates while the Democrats sit around fretting about how to 'manage the looting.' Even if Trump is kicked out, the gates are still open and the people believe the locks of protection are broken.
On one side you have the Republicans who have decided that the political passions of its base are steeped in covert racial bias and discrimination. In order to maintain power, they have committed to the propaganda of outright lies and misstatements. They knowingly promote policies which put kids in cages, deport people back to their country to be murdered, disenfranchise black voters, incentivize polluters/mucrackers/con artist evangelicals, and the worst players in our culture. Once you have a party that has decided to systemically lie about facts to its citizens, there is very little difference between taking its own lies or adopting those of Russian intelligence. A lie is a lie...and any lie will do if it serves the purpose of continuing to trigger fear/terror and mistrust in an aging white population.
On the other side, you have the Dems who are mostly own by corporate America (as opposed to Republicans who are entirely owned). With the exception of Bernie Sanders, all the Dem presidential frontrunners are backed by billionaires who are committed to maintaining inequality and suffering. Our healthcare system is THE worst in the Western World. The worst. Full stop. It criminalizes sickness, punishes weakness, leads to tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year. Dems know this, corporations know this, insurance companies know this. They either are unwilling to change or don't care about Americans dying. The explosion in student loans is robbing future generations and -once again- everyone knows that these things are very bad and 100% preventable. But there is no willingness to do anything. There is almost an enraging impotence of leadership on the left.
This is how societies die from internal corruption. On one side you have the crooks, and the other side you have the people who should know better...but don't have the energy to do anything substantial. At a certain point, the people stop believing in the community principles, and the gates to the city are open so the invaders can rush in to plunder everything. The political process becomes an entertaining empty spectacle. Presidents dance for votes, sing for likes, seriousness is seen as a flaw because there is no belief that anything substantial can be accomplished by the serious men of policy. We live in the age of clowns, tap dancers, and karaoke singers.
The Republican party has opened the gates while the Democrats sit around fretting about how to 'manage the looting.' Even if Trump is kicked out, the gates are still open and the people believe the locks of protection are broken.
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