You know, simply put, there needs to be an adverse consequence for politicians who

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16. Very intellectually tantalizing parallelism you've made there Trueblue Texan.

"Sometimes when I think of our political imbalances I am reminded of species that become too specialized then die out." It subsumes the current political ecology with a twist I hadn't thought or heard of yet. It acknowledges that this cannot continue without some sort of resolution and makes one guess to which strategy presents the likeliest path to survivability.

Questions to ponder:
Have only THEY evolved into special non-viability?
Have they contaminated the environment for all, leaving everyone only subsistence on a plague planet where few nurture immunity?
Have they intentionally distilled the toxicity in an otherwise healthy environment to the point that NO other political species can exist?
In other words, have they poisoned only themselves or are ALL now incapable of surviving in this damaged democracy they've created?

And then there's this:
Is the environment capable of adapting while allowing us to evolve past this? Or is popular extinction the only key to repair?

Asking for a friend who says he doesn't want to see WWIII.