[Savage Beast]

"Reform will only come through curtailing the government handouts that fuel multibillion dollar university endowments."

So the (apparently) insurmountable obstacle is government corruption? Probably so. Mutual back-scratching.

So what's the cure for government corruption?

It's probably due to contempt for truth--truth for its own sake--which has perverted the once-reliable free press into a crass political propaganda machine and once-open-minded academic leaders into indoctrinators--and which is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilizaiton.

But there's something more fundamental than that. Yes. It's whatever has engendered and fostered contempt for truth in the people of Western Civilization.

What is that? I'm having a hard time recognizing it. Great Minds, help me to see what that is. This is a sincere request for help.

[bankwalker]

the answers are throughout the old testament ...

[Elsie]

“A democracy is always temporary in nature;
it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury.

Alexander Fraser Tytler