Again, Too Damn Close To The Truth

[tjakey]

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

Then again, in America stupid people are going to the voting booth and electing exactly what they deserve. So maybe democracy is just a really hard thing to do, taking the best efforts of an informed and aware citizenry. Americans are simply not up to the challenge. Or perhaps democracy is less a fallacy and more a seriously flawed system prone to failure.

Then again, maybe any and every country eventually falls to simple corruption and influence peddling; regardless of the type of government it is. The USSR collapsed from it. China is desperately trying to get it under control. The Middle East is rife with it and, as a result, slides every further into chaos. And here in the US the Supreme Court decided that corruption is a right protected by the Constitution.

Regardless, we are done as a first world society on the leading edge of human history.