PostmodernPythia

The left doesn’t have the money to prop up a decent counterpropaganda apparatus.

The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.

Yes, but none of that applies to a South African born in South Africa to South African parents.

As someone who has extensive personal experience with severe mental illness, I appreciate very much your desire to defend us (your instinct would usually be right), but psychopathy is a weird one. If the previous commenter had said “mental illness” instead of psychopathy specifically, I’d be pissed. But there is evidence that psychopaths advance in business management. I realize it’s not exactly JAMA, but here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/senior-executives-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths/?sh=24aa505d47c4

Modern US conservative policy isn’t a complex question. The answer is always money or sadism.

I don’t want to do-over the Civil War.

Both 9/11s were pretty freaking real, but you’re right on the US orchestrating the 1973 one.

On a practical level, with the current system, there is no way to fix this. My choices are utopian dreams or despair, and I’ve made my choice.

You could outlaw for-profit participation in the sector. Facebook would suck way less if it didn’t have to increase profits for shareholders constantly.