Way to go, Okies.

@DIABLISS Only the US. It is the communists that are causing democracy to fail. It is easy to manipulate weak minded people, and gather them up in groups to protest meaningless crap, and then forcing new laws that mess everything up. They know eventually democracy will cave in on itself, and they are quite happy to help it do so. Keep going weak minded people, you are doing exactly what they want.

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@UreBesFrend other countries are twice as bad with the way they tell women how to live and be

@UreBesFrend If America fails, the responsibility will lie squarely on her inhabitants.

@Graylight not this inhabitant. no one listens to people who are correct and that is everywhere in the world. i know my country is ass backwards. children are treated like garbage. minorities are treated like garbage . Women are treated like garbage...and then when these groups start acting like garbage the crusty old white guys say, "see, we let them live here and see how they treat us?"

@DIABLISS All true, but... When's the last time you took a local election seriously? Not just a party line exercise, but really understood the background, histories, qualifications and ambitions of the candidates? If you do, great; most of us never take that kind of time. Those local politicians become regional politicians, and many of them go on to sit over us in the seats of Congress. They become governors and Presidential aides and influencers. And if we treat it like a punchline, a punchline it will be.

Government is an empty, useless machine kept forever at a standstill unless fueled by the very people it serves. We vote and our votes coalesce into collective choice. Every single character we complain about got to his or her spot through US voters. Nothing salacious, nothing secret. They pandered, we listened.

That's what I mean when I say the failure of government is on the people. The people are government; everything else is just machinery.