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Could this be a scaling problem?

Governments continue to get bigger, with more power concentrated at the top. The president being the prime example, an office that was originally intended to be the top cop become an office invested with the hopes and desires of everyone in the country/world, looked towards to single-handedly address any problem.

Then there is the internet, where everyone has the opportunity to go viral, and we can all argue about everything.

Throw in huge multi-national corporations bigger than many nations, treated as people by law, and legally able to buy off politicians in the U.S...

So now in the U.S. we have two parties optimizing to stay in power moreso than act from principal, more manipulative media than ever, and implementing huge national programs based on the slim majority that voted for president that year.

I don't think censorship tweaks are going to fix this. A lot of people don't feel represented, and they are right.




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