{"id":64303,"date":"2022-11-30T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64303"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:31:45","slug":"i-used-to-be-disgusted-now-im-just-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64303","title":{"rendered":"I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I’m Just Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I’m Just Tired<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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The midterm elections, the \u201cmost important elections of our lifetimes,\u201d are over. Whoever won, it wasn\u2019t really going to change much. Today\u2019s system is simply too deeply entrenched.<\/p>\n

While the much-touted differences between America\u2019s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who\u2019s in power gets little notice.<\/p>\n

Scrape away the differences \u2014 mostly in domestic and cultural issues \u2014 and we see the dead hand of Imperial Corruption is on the tiller.<\/p>\n

The core of Imperial Corruption is the disconnect between the nation\u2019s ideals of representational democracy and open markets and the sordid reality: elites serve their interests by corrupting both democracy and open markets.<\/p>\n

Elites Against Democracy<\/b><\/p>\n

Unfettered democracy and markets cannot be controlled by a tiny, self-serving elite. Stripped of corruption, democracy and markets are free-for-alls that are constantly evolving. This open-ended dynamism is the beating heart of both democracy and open markets.<\/p>\n

But the dynamic adaptive churn of unfettered representative democracy and open markets are anathema to insiders, vested interests and elites. Each has gained asymmetric power by subverting democracy and markets to serve their private interests. They\u2019ve destroyed the system\u2019s natural dynamism.<\/p>\n

When \u201ccompetition\u201d has been reduced to two telecoms, two healthcare insurers, two pork processors, etc., the system has been stripped of adaptability and resilience.<\/p>\n

Democracy has been replaced by an\u00a0auction of political power to the highest bidder<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Everything\u2019s Up for Grabs<\/b><\/p>\n

It rewards cronies and devotes all its resources not to solving the nation\u2019s problems but to whipping up conflagrations of divisiveness and partisan hysteria that wash away the middle ground where problems can actually be addressed.<\/p>\n

This crippling of the nation\u2019s ability to actually solve difficult problems serves the interests of self-serving elites whose sole interest is accumulating personal wealth and power.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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