How is it that politicans ruin things for 99% of people, but we all just go along with it?

[Deserter2]

[DrPepper12]

Easy. We are the enemy of ourselves.

"Garbage in, garbage out" George Carlin

Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

[jahaims]

There is nothing you can do. Voting is influenced by money so unless you are a billionaire you won't change anything like that. Violence doesn't work because the government has more resources to stop said violence.

[saraupstairs]

A representative Republic doesn't work. We need referendum voting.

[Agape93]

Because most have no taste for necessary violence.

[NaultD]

The iron triangle of time, cost, effectiveness and you get to pick 2. So I don't think it's ruined but it unfortunately exactly to the letter what we want.

[lightbulb27]

exactly. because both sides screw us, so it's either the left hand or right hand or the tail that whacks us, it all starts to look the same.

[Unit1]

They have power.

We don't.

If we get power, they'll steal it from us and keep us being peasants.