I know States are not allowed to declare bankruptcy, but I still want to see a full-fledged budget crisis, debt default, crisis and shutdown in Illinois
Its really the only way to fix government. Democracy has become one-party rule, gamed by special interests - and it has failed.
“[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.” …This is the endgame of Wilsonian thinking. (Wilson was the first president in the USA’s history to nationalize the country’s railroads, too.)
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”