@TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh) The US willingly voted a dickhead in

Read the stuff Trotsky wrote in the 30s

he lived it

They need someone to take on the Industrial Complexes.

It's not about economic systems, it's about rule of law, ultimately

If you run an industrial complex and the government threatens to beat and rape and kill you, you'd yield for your own survical

The seduction of finding a 'quick way' to improving the world unfortunately is the ultimate con

No Head of State or Government does anything for the people

Americans are comfortable with tapists leading their nation

it is the 'Dark Side' from Star Wars, literally

They do it from themselves

@TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh) Justin Trudeau does. Fidel Castro did. Hillary Clinton would have.

your anger will be used agaisnt you, unless you are gangster enough to be the new power

but if you were that gangster, we wouldn't be having this discussion

@Sh0t False in Canada

True everywhere, it's human nature

The famous strongmen understand this

It's deeper than politics

@Sh0t Canadian corruption barely exists

Who said it was corrupt?

It isn't

Canada doesn't have a strongman , it's a liberal country that more-or-less adheres to the rule of law

so is the US for the most part

The US is not liberal

the fight to keep it that way is what we are experiencing

yea it is, people complain and it needs improvement but they would be shocked if they went to many other places

I have zero faith in democracy

democracy is just a tool, a means to an end

IT's main purpose is to get buy-in, legitimacy

@Sh0t and left wing autocracy is better

Nobody really thinks majority vote is a good way to design anything

better for what

Many left and right wing types do not really understand 'legitimacy'

The extremes might be more efficient, but you lose whatever gain in a loss of legitimacy

I stand behind Cuba

The most harmless nation on Earth

Cuba has participated in quite a few of the violent episodes last century

Less bad then America

Only because they don't have the means to be so

That might be an argument for smaller states in general

Quite a few philosophers have noticed that, city-state culture might be the best