I almost wouldn't care if Russia took over the USA at this point
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Stop slathering to be a slave to a different master over the current one.
The point is to stop being a slave.
*"It is under monarchy that intelligence stands its best chance against its ever present and irreconcilable foe, stupidity." -Arthur Schopenhauer
You want a system that has been proven repeatedly to not work. Democracy is the victory of the stupid over the reasonable.
Yes, that's what I think of when I think of the Hapsburg Dynasty: unflinching competence. /s
Stop it.
Monarchism, hereditary rule, and aristocracy do not prevent stupidity. They don't even really prevent mob rule.
That's right. They don't.
But democracy guarantees it.
So does monarchism, aristocracy, and hereditary rule.
There is a reason the children of very wealthy people blow it all: their lack of strife generates the stupidity that their successful parents rebuffed. The aristocracy is one of the most stupid institutions you could have politically. That's why the elites become out of touch in the first place.
Monarchism doesn't help.
Voting, more than 'Democracy', has a chance of working when managed properly.
When Schopenhauer wrote that, the only modern "dictator" had been Napoleon, and he fashioned himself a monarch.
If Schopenhauer been born a century later he would have used a different word.
The point is that democracy is a distributed system in which it is absolutely impossible to liberate the system from stupidity. With a single leader, there is the possibility that they aren't stupid (and if they are, it's a simple enough matter to get rid of them). You can't get rid of an entire people, although when government is dysfunctional enough for long enough, the people will try to anyway in an orgy of blood. Without fail.
Indeed. I second this notion.
Point of Order. Putin is objectively better than Biden or his handlers. It's not bootlicking to state the facts.
Putin's better than Biden because he is coherent.
Better than his handlers? I don't think so.
Better in what respect? More competent, more moral, better for his own country?
Better in his ability to process and react to information by being coherent.
Putin is also better than a plant in this respect.
Not sure that is in the works.
You don't wait for that to happen. You do it yourself.