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Originally Posted by 3catcircus
Pretty much any nation would be better off, regardless of what form of government they have, if there were to be lotteries to randomly select people to serve in government for one year terms.
It's very interesting that, regardless of what form of government, it also seems that it gravitates to an entrenched political class in charge, underpinned by an entrenched bureaucratic class running an administrative state, backing them up and not beholden to its citizens.
The clerk at the local motor vehicle office who has been there for 20 years even though she is terrible at the job and enjoys gatekeeping your ability to renew your driver's license is as disruptive to your life as a senator or minister plotting with their counterpart from another country at a summit. Why is it that these various meetings and summits always occur in fancy vacation destinations? They're never held in ****hole cities or countries.
The only difference between the US and, say, African or South American nations? We've got easy access to guns and a historical precedent explicitly directing us to overthrow our own government and replace it with something better. Most other nations' histories involve overthrow by a worse form of government, even though the average person in *any* country wants exactly the same thing - peace, stability, the opportunity to live comfortably (financial-wise), and for their kids to have it better than them.
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We've got easy access to guns and a historical precedent explicitly directing us to overthrow our own government and replace it with something better.
Sorry i'm not falling for the stick and carrot. Just where on this planet do you live? I would like to know ? where these virtues live.Please tell us.