Political Decadence Explained for the Peanut Gallery

[JimBowie1958]

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The one dynamic that matters is of course left unsaid: the inability of the Status Quo to reform itself, i.e. undertake fundamental, systemic reforms. This inability has many facets but only one root: political sclerosis caused by entrenched, vested interests seeking to protect their perquisites and power.

This is as true of local school districts as it is of entire states.

Here is my scale-invariant summary of the Status Quo:

1. An economy that is controlled by the government is one in which political power, not the market, controls the distribution of national income. Politics is the arena in which the national income is distributed. The primary contestants are entrenched, vested interests seeking to protect their perquisites and power.

2. A government in which political power is for sale to the highest bidder puts the wealthy at an extreme advantage, as they have the means to buy political power to conserve and expand their share of the national income.

3. In order to do the bidding of the financial Elite, the political Elite redistributes enough national income to the bottom 50% and retirees to buy their silence/complicity.

4. A nation in which political power is for sale is one in which the rule of law is bent to serve those with power.

And don't say our government has always been corrupt; that is a given for all nations to one degree or another. It is part of the human condition.

The necrosis is evident when things cant get fixed, or the government cant even pass a fucking budget.