Not sure we can be trusted with democracy anymore

…the vision of our political leadership is about staying in power, promoting and protecting a static political class. I laughed when people flipped out about GWB being elected to POTUS because of his family connection - much of those same people didn’t give much thought to Gore’s run, or calling for Hillary or Michelle Obama to run. But I digress.

We were told at the start of the UKR war that autocracies are brittle. This seems less and less the case to me, especially when the autocracies in question are nuclear. Instead we see democracies around the world easily invaded by populism fueled by feckless leadership and a laissez faire social media class. The US is a clown show right now, from the perspective of just about any institutional angle you could imagine. And much of this was brought about by self serving political and other elites.

We are really are just about too stupid to be a democracy anymore