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Oswald acted alone.

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Wait, are you one of these boomer unicorns that still believes this unironically?

Why the hell do you want to go to war? What is wrong with you?

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going to War with Iran would be inflationary and make it harder for him to accomplish his domestic Economic goals and just add to the chaos narrative that the Democrats are trying to manufacturer now

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That’s putting things comically lightly :lol:

The gravity of this insult grows weaker by the year, as the victory is ultimately yielding a switch to Arabic.

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Meh. I'd rather have the ability to vote in or out my government representatives, rather than have some person ruling over everything and everyone just because he/she was the son/daughter of the previous king.

I'll say this again, our votes matter and we the people are responsible for the elected representatives in our government. The circumstances of our nation would be much better if tax paying voters paid closer attention and voted for better representation.

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In principle I don’t disagree with you. The problem is that what you’re describing is not reality, and it hasn’t been reality in a long time.

The vast majority of people are uninformed, or don’t care. Or even worse, care for the wrong reasons curated via propaganda. And I, nor you, nor anyone else has a solution to fix this. In fact I only see it getting worse.

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The government was designed to give influence only to certain classes.

It was never supposed to give equal representation to everyone.

This is common sense. If you were overseeing a project and you had 20 people participating ranging from people with IQs of 140 down to IQs of 85, you would not give every one of them equal influence over decisions.

If you did, you'd probably be one of the people in the 85 IQ range.

The Founding Fathers were not populists. They were Elitists.

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I don’t disagree with you, it’s just that these supposed experts and pseudo aristocracy no longer functions in the manner it was supposed to.

The current iteration was created by FDR, who for all intents and purposes was a dictator for life of the US. The elitist bureaucracy expert class he created to rule the country was truly impressive, and pulled off amazing things like the Manhattan project, and Apollo program, etc.

The problem today is the same shell of a system has been running on autopilot more or less with little fiefdoms, and perverse incentives have corrupted everything to the core so that nothing can be accomplished.

A real article 2 president is needed to steer this ship. Trump is trying to be that, I just am not sure he has everything it takes.

Interesting to see this thread here.

If you distilled each of the classic forms of government (monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy) down to its pure and best form, monarchy is obviously the best, and that shouldn’t be controversial either.

However, the best government is suited to the people it rules. Each form can be more or less appropriate depending on who the people are that it governs. When America was founded, I think the federal system with democratically elected representatives was the natural and correct system which organically arose from the circumstances.

The problem today is multifaceted. First, the system which was initially set up has been diluted substantially over time. Universal suffrage was never meant to be the law of the land for the voting of representatives, and the founders would have considered it lunacy for this to be so. Everyone knows it’s bad, everyone can see that not everyone deserves a vote, but we’ve been so conditioned into this liberal hyper individualist form of thinking no one has the gumption to call it out for the disaster that it is.

Second, people have been brainwashed into not even properly understanding what the current system actually is. It’s hard to see, because technically it has more “democracy” than the founding, but the expansion of suffrage was and always has been a cynical tool for bolstering oligarchy. That is what our current system is, oligarchy. It doesn’t work like the constitution says, unelected bureaucrats and agencies control everything we do, along with a Congress with outrageous incumbency rates (due to cynical manipulation of the underclass voting as mentioned earlier). FDR created a new form of government that is nothing like what the constitution says it is. And a creative theater keeps everyone pretending it is what we think it is supposed to be.

Now we get to today, with a people unfit to rule themselves and alienated from their own society. I think it is inevitable a Caesar figure comes to rule over a shattered and inept republic just as happened in Rome, the question is when. A true hierarchical monarchy would not work here, because it requires an organic tradition that the population respects, and that would be impossible to achieve.

Isn’t the only reason the Houthis started back up with their crap is because Israel violated the cease fire we’ve been brokering?