the public needs to eventually learn that for every dollar they send to washington, they get only a fraction back, no matter how lucrative their own pork. the problem with our politics is that voters have not realized that they are almost always cheating themselves when they try to cheat their neighbors. it's a shell game that they keep playing as long as they think someone else is paying.
Agreed.
I don't believe there are intrinsic flaws in democracy, so much as there are intrinsic flaws in *human*nature* that are coming to light after decades. government is a reflection of our human natures. one cannot really expect a government to correct the flaws of its users, any more than software could do the same.
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