Re: Lunacy from Brussels


bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Bad as it is, the Republican administration in the U.S. is worse -
> before you get too rude about Brussells, you have the review the
> existing alternatives, which are remarkably unattractive.

ALL the existing options are unattractive, because lobbying technology
is now too sophisticated - technology for disseminating propaganda is
orders of magnitude better than it once was, but average intelligence
is at best increasing linearly.

Anyone with money and a crazed idea can create a movement around it,
and through television and other media convince the average Joe Sixpack
on his couch that the most pressing issue facing the world today is
gun-grabbing, or saving the rare albino ocelot, or legalizing marriage
between homosexual cheesemakers. Governments merely have to determine
statistically how many people belong to each movement, decide how many
votes they need, and hence calculate which idiotic ideas they must
support in order to be voted in.

A Democratic administration would be no different. Worse, in fact.
There would be even more bull*** doomed social programs stealing from
my pocket.

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