What's your generation and how would you change your government?

[David Horn]

(03-24-2022, 12:21 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(03-24-2022, 06:10 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Of course. I'm not sanguine either; maybe less so, because of the realization that we have to turn the corner in the next 7 years or we go off a cliff forever, and we haven't made much of a turn yet, really. The crisis mindset is increasing; perhaps that offers some hope.

This much we agree on. People still hold onto delusional ideals and want some sort of government or heroic figure to rescue them, but no one can rescue a person from bad character and principles, and this is 30x more true of a nation than it is a person.

This is the furthest into a crisis era we've come with little progress to show.  With the American oligarchs firmly established as both business moguls and popular figures in nearly one half of the nation, the potential for harm is high.

I don't know about you but having organizations like Blackrock supply the politicians of the near-term future is demoralizing.  We already have one here in Virginia.  The primary talent of venture capital is to destroy and extract.  That bodes poorly for the rest of us ... and for them as well, if they actually gave it a thought.