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Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it's her generation's fault.
How are these people in charge of anything?
How are they in charge? They get voted in because better people are not running or not getting voted for in many cases. Gerrymandering protects some of them.
Because we select our leaders via rigged popularity contests then let them sit in office with zero accountability, zero modern standards for hiring or work oversight, and "performance evaluations" every 2-6 years. Imagine running a company that way.
Exactly.
The greatest problem of Representative Democracy where each representative stands for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people - meaning voters can't know the person, only their carefully managed external image - is that it's selecting people for just Salesmanship capabilities, and salespeople are seldom good at anything that requires logical and honest thinking (in my experience, the best salespeople believe their own bullshit, and that's not at all possible if one's views are detailed and honest, rather than vague and full of wishful thinking).
So the top managers of a nation are people selected for personal qualities that are almost antithetical to the qualities a good manager should have.
Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.
I'd be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.
There's also more of them.
There are not more boomers anymore. Maybe a higher percentage vote.
A big reason the DNC didn't want a primary in 2024 is because boomer votes probably can't carry primary candidates any longer.
also because they REFUSE to release the election autopsy investigation for 2024, they definitely knew there was rigging. REPUBLICANS will call rigging regardless if they release it or not. they are totally complicit with the GOP coming into power.
I was told the same thing 30 years ago. Nobody is paying for shit.
Yep. The way national debt is "supposed" to work, is that you pay it back by growing the economy.
Kids these days know. That's why the birth rate keeps dropping.
I aint bringing a kid into this bullshit of a country.