Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Second Thought" channel.

  1. I don't know what you expect! Perfection?! The only thing you have a right to expect is that "people will do what people do"...which is, "act in their own best interest". Our political system is competitive--if you don't win, too bad! And it's a good thing that the parties are not so different traditionally, though, currently, they are very different. Being very different makes it more difficult to reach compromise. So, I think this video's treatment is very superficial, opportunity for insight, lost. It felt like a rant...
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  2.  @johnreese7352  <--Then, CHANGE! You can't force others to change to your design--it doesn't work that way. The only thing that can change a person is his own experience. You can force him to have an experience of your design, but you can't force him to take the value from it that you intended! "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Except for the corruption inherent in the system, the system wouldn't WORK! The paranoid, "they", is irrelevant! "They" is "us"...People aren't perfect, so "they" can't very well create perfection. You can tilt at windmills 'till the cows come home, accomplishing nothing; or, you can discover yourself in the path you find yourself taking through this mess. You can "go with the flow", "roll with the punches"--sway in your characteristic way in the dance with death we call "life". "What do you live for?!"--"Rinne", Band-Maid
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  3.  @johnreese7352  <--Corruption is endemic to the system, as I've said, so you CAN'T "end corruption in american politics"! It's not within the realm of possibility. You can knock it down, but it's gotta stay if the system is to remain intact. Maybe look at it this way: the system, as designed, is a crude machine; turned to finer tasks, it would fail, but for the intercession of error-correcting "fudge", "compensation" factors. I suppose an apt analogy would be bribes "greasing the skids", helping the system perform productively by compensating for its deficiencies--and, a deficiency is what it is when the system fails to perform precisely as designed.
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