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America is ungovernable. Since the 1980s, we have systematically enabled cheaters - we call them billionaires - to take over every key academic, corporate, financial, and political institution.

And I saw 'we' because it's quite evident 'we the people' enabled it at every turn.
There were so many canaries in a coal mine. A latest one was Boeing, whose stock price is doing fine but which cannot actually make safe aircraft.
Hatred towards Congress - which is the most democratic body in America - is the key signal. American voters do not want their political leaders to confront power, and until they do, our living standards will continue to collapse.
The GOP are pirates and looters with an angry voting base who just want to own the libz. The Democrats are staffed by pirates and looters, with a voting base of romantics who don't believe in politics or wielding power. Maybe there's a different coalition out there. Dunno.
When Joe Biden takes over he'll refuse to wield power, as his predecessors have refused to wield power. And it will be catastrophic, as it has been for years. Meanwhile our alliances will snap, and we may face social collapses in large pockets of the nation.
Donald Trump refused to govern, but so has nearly every state and local official in America. There is no bright side. Since 2017 I thought Trump would lose because he's a fool, and he will lose, but until we the people choose to want a democracy, we won't have one.
It will be an exceptionally rude awakening. American elites are so insular and ignorant they think food comes from supermarket shelves and computers come from Apple stores. When they learn that being able to do things matters it will be too late.
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