[Alberta's Child]

If you want to find the culprits in this fiscal idiocy, we should all just look in the mirror.

This isn't a political problem. It's an inevitable course of events with any democratic system. Almost any political candidate who runs on a campaign of fiscal austerity is going to get his ass kicked on Election Day.

[Leaning Right]

> This isn’t a political problem. It’s an inevitable course of events with any democratic system. <

Good point. The Founders were aware of this, and so they the devised a Senate that was not chosen by popular vote. The Senate would act as a brake.

Then came the 17th Amendment. No more brake.

[citizen]

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

---

We’ve been there for a few decades.