International Law

Best Summary of U.S. Politics Ever

By Stan

This is off topic for me, but this political analysis (which applies not just to the current U.S. presidential election, but to democracy in general) is so cogent that I’m making an exception:

When faced with a choice between the guy that’s telling them that nothing has to change and everything is okay, and the guy who is telling them that everything has to change and nothing is all right, many self-interested voters are opting for the guy telling them that they can keep living their lives as they have been. No facts are going to disrupt this line of thinking.

It’s important to remember that democracy works, but not always the way you might think. The government reflects the will of the people. If the electorate wants to check out and vote for a fantasy rather than addressing the real problems facing the country, then that country’s citizens will get exactly what they deserve. If they know that the last eight years have not gone well, and then they return to office the people who got us into this mess in the first place, they deserve to live in four more years of the same mess.

Indeed.

Full post as published by China Hearsay on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).