Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Scott Galloway Makes Crowd Go Quiet with This Chilling Warning" video.

  1. Everything in the US is by the choice (inaction is a choice) of the American people. The American people relentlessly elect incompetent, venal and corrupt politicians who then do exactly what any sober observer expects they would. The beauty of democracy is voters get exactly what they vote for. Democracy requires a genuinely educated electorate (said education need not be confused with formal schooling, but most people are not autodidacts) because people who know nothing of a subject cannot evaluate subject matter expertise. The American people chose both directly and indirectly every aspect of their government. The results demonstrate democracy doesn't scale well. It's fine for small communities but the US is too large and complex to be run by ordinary minds. The public's savage, proud ignorance forces EVERYONE seeking office to pander to that ignorance and to compromise in order to get funding without which they cannot run a competitive race. The American people are too lazy to have much concept of civic duty, while at the same time feeling entitled to competent government by people who do without any effort on their part. This is a nation which thanks veterans "for their service" while refusing to learn foreign policy and confusing supporting "the troops" for supporting every strategically indefensible constabulary war they're sold by the hacks they elect. The people relentlessly reinforce the system they snivel about, unable to realize democracy means they did it to themselves at the ballot box.
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