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Matthew Venuti's avatar

It has pushed me to the conclusion that democracy just doesn’t work. The success of the early years of Liberal democracy seems to me to be based in the fact that few people had the vote, and the governments never felt it owed an explanation outside of a few classes of people. In the age of universal suffrage, it just doesn’t work. Too many cross purposes and too many with little knowledge or skin in the game get vocal. It encourages the government to lie. Now they’ve lied so long, no one can tell fact from fictions. It’s propped up by so many lies that a large percentage of our politicians are ignorant of our founding documents, are open about the fact and dare you care. Bring it all down. My replacement? A constitutional monarchy with restricted voting rights along with a state church. Yeah, I know it’s not going to happen, but could it really be any worse?

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Steve Skojec's avatar

I feel like it really could be, but maybe I'm wrong.

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Matthew Venuti's avatar

Want to help me establish said monarchy and see who’s right? What else you got to do today? Revolution!

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ComfyOldShoe's avatar

The Jesse Welles song is on pretty on point about much of this, and the slightly out-of-tune guitar just makes it all the better.

However, there are pieces of the Epstein saga you’d do well to learn of from Mike Benz and, yes, Tucker Carlson’s interview with reviled D. Cooper. There are many threads here and you can discern for yourself.

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