The Problem With Politics is US
Well, here we are in yet another quadrennial, “silly season,” also known as a presidential election year . Every four years we go through this crazy season, with the idea that, somehow, politics and our beloved pet candidate (and his managing party) will save us from ourselves. More than that, even, is the fact that we likewise forget for several months that the problems we endure are caused by the very people we choose every silly season. Underscoring these blind spots in our mental state are several glaring fallacies under which we seemingly LOVE to labor.... 1. The fundamental fallacy we cling to is the flaw of all democratic systems: They always depend on the dominant culture, regardless of whether that culture is bad or good. Democratic systems are incapable of steering a culture away from its own errors; they just maintain the prevailing cultural drift through averaging....yielding average results at best. They are really quite gutless when it comes to effecting catalytic