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thepainterdoug
with all thats been said, knowing the state of the human being today , will anyone advocate what form of government they feel could possibly work today?
Doug, this isn't a direct answer to your excellent question, but I might offer the view that it's not the imperfect system that's rotten, it's the people controlling and manipulating it. With those same people in power and influence, any other system would be corrupted in the same way.
I feel I have to be careful here in what I say, but I'm pretty sure
the entire thing has to come down. All the many predictions, visions, and prophecies (as well as personal 'messages' from unseen sources)
all of them! state that things will get worse before they get better. That feels pretty true to me.
How much worse, I don't know. No-one does. But it might get pretty bad. Not just in terms of the breakdown of society and all its norms, but also law and order, the financial system, supply chains (including food and energy, the two key items), and maybe a large-scale kinetic world war. Throw in a few natural disasters as well, and that's pretty much the end of many aspects of everyday life as we've become accustomed to expect it to be every day.
Some countries and areas would fare a lot better than others. But regarding the US, Canada and Europe, I think only very few people truly understand how precarious and dire the entire situation is.
Everything is breaking. Nothing at all is sustainable. National projects and programs are almost all based on flawed premises, in turn based on equally flawed ideologies. Just look. With eyes wide open, it's all there to see.
The way this all connects with the issue of democracy is that citizens are meant to be able to vote bad leaders out of office and choose new ones.
But that doesn't work and hasn't worked for decades.
The people who COULD maybe fix it all highly intelligent, highly educated, politically unaffiliated, totally ethical and incorruptible people, the exceptional best of the best (and these people do exist) who in some parallel reality might work together in large, empowered, action-oriented international think tanks with no political donors or sponsors in sight don't go anywhere near politics, definitely don't want to, and probably couldn't even if they chose to.
They present themselves on alt media videos instead. Like Chris Martenson, and Alexander Mercouris or Doug Macgregor, Tucker Carlson or Tulsi Gabbard. (There are many many others, of course, including in other countries and in other languages.)
They have their own networks of well-informed kindred spirits, and an audience of a few million people: just a tiny proportion of the world's population. But they have little or no real influence of any kind in the so called Halls of Power. Even most hard-working regular folk have no time to watch, listen to or read the kind of material that everyone reading this post will do very regularly. Most are only dimly aware that this alternative-viewpoint world even exists.
As a tiny example of how genuinely good people almost never reach any real positions of influence, look how many well-intentioned candidates we hear about every year who valiantly try to stand for (e.g) the US Senate, or Congress, or other positions of office where they might get elected. (In the UK or the EU, maybe Members of Parliament.) But they almost never stand a chance.
'From Log Cabin to White House' died its death over 150 years ago.
Democracy just does not work. The price the western world will surely pay for that may be enormous. We think it's all happening slowly (though increasingly less so!) but in historical terms, seen in the context of man's journey over the last 2500 years, it's all happening VERY VERY fast now. Within just a single decade, the entire world might be totally different in a whole bunch of ways.
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