The citizens of the U.S. are neither organized enough, sufficiently intelligent and motivated, to keep the various levels of government in check.
As we have seen with the Epstein stuff, even when the evidence is overwhelming and unambiguous there is massive amount of direct support and an accompanying vacuum of response
The only conclusion to be had is: Everyone is ok enough with the state of reality that they will not change it.
Shortly after Trump started to screw up the economy, Wyden stated Trump had ruined an economy that was the envy of the world.[1] The problem is that envy of the world economy was built entirely on decades of deflation of the average persons buying power.
Other world leaders were envious alright. They wanted the secret to how US leaders convinced the public to accept runaway inequality, where it now takes $800k/yr to have the buying power of $200k/yr in 1980.
He’s doing well with the whole investigating Trump angle
but like the rest of the Dems he's signed off on looting workers.
Was it ever revealed what the 2015 warning about common commercial service agreements was about?
Off the top of my mind I'd go with privacy policies: maybe their typical vagueness is exploited to the extreme, and rather than pointless legal mumbo-jumbo, they're actually a legal cornerstone of some extensive surveillance program. Hmm...
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The citizens of the U.S. are neither organized enough, sufficiently intelligent and motivated, to keep the various levels of government in check.
As we have seen with the Epstein stuff, even when the evidence is overwhelming and unambiguous there is massive amount of direct support and an accompanying vacuum of response
The only conclusion to be had is: Everyone is ok enough with the state of reality that they will not change it.
Everyone gets the governance they deserve
Shortly after Trump started to screw up the economy, Wyden stated Trump had ruined an economy that was the envy of the world.[1] The problem is that envy of the world economy was built entirely on decades of deflation of the average persons buying power.
Other world leaders were envious alright. They wanted the secret to how US leaders convinced the public to accept runaway inequality, where it now takes $800k/yr to have the buying power of $200k/yr in 1980.
He’s doing well with the whole investigating Trump angle but like the rest of the Dems he's signed off on looting workers.
[1] https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/ron-wyden-us-economy-envy-lau...
Sorry to defend the US here but, this is true in every country of this world. There is no way citizens can "check" a government.
Off the top of my mind I'd go with privacy policies: maybe their typical vagueness is exploited to the extreme, and rather than pointless legal mumbo-jumbo, they're actually a legal cornerstone of some extensive surveillance program. Hmm...