• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      US politics is a reflection of the US public. Apparently a failed state is the best the US can do in the 21st C…

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      The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

      To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

      To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.