Reply #113: If it works only to funnel wealth to the rich, spy on it's citizens, waging unending war against

[TheKentuckian]

out matched and relatively unequipped enemies, to facilitate the interests of the few to the detriment of the many, and to dispossess it's citizens then that qualifies as broken.

Just because say a device does something doesn't mean it is functioning properly. If my TV emits a buzzing sound and displays a few bars of pictures that box is fucking broken and only a skilled diagnostic and am honest appraisal will determine if it can be repaired or if that puppy is a goner for sure.


The government is captured, all three branches and both parties. Our's is less of a pool of toxins in a waste dump but it is most definitely a toxic pool and without any serious question in a dump.

To suggest otherwise indicates being asleep for a generation or two or that one is acting to maintain a set of circumstances they either find advantageous or the thought of real change is either alien or abhorrent to the point that even unsatisfactory conditions are defended to maintain the known.

I don't know what your goals are but it looks from my perspective like burning the clock.

The old Dean Smith four corners routine.

Muted tones and calls for steadfast patience for days that seem further off rather than being approached slowly or not.

Be as positive as you'd like but be positive from reality not from what you have every faith it is. Your recipe for success is to plug along and play the game, again four corners, run out the clock, foul it off-whatever you like best is all I see keep doing what you've been doing and at some known point for magical reasons things will be alright and getting better all the time.

You believe as you will but it has no special wisdom or time proven paths, I believed as you do for decades and it is painfully hollow today. A fantasy for a willing stooge or an useful idiot, a calming tune to soothe the sheep on the path to the slaughter house.

It is a tough case to make that we are seeing a government that is promoting the general welfare, securing our civil liberties, or providing a framework for broad prosperity and to me that is broken especially over the kind of time we are talking about here.

The problems I see are deep and many structural. You maybe just believe some new furniture and a coat or two of paint will make it all good. I'm alarmed and if it harshes your buzz, oh well. Maybe it is time for Rip Van Winkle to wake the hell up from his dream that made eighth grade civics into a faith that no power could pervert, convert, topple, or capture for nefarious purposes.

No magic protects our government from being a rouse and an extraction scam and it had happened.
Those that have done this care not at all if the arrangement is popular, only that we are pacified enough to tolerate it and preferably enthralled into helping by whatever vanity, faith, desperate need, or most hopeful vision that gives them a lever to move you in ways that benefit their ill gotten wealth and power.