DRUMPF exposed "a pre-existing rot" - brilliant essay by Rob GOODMAN (long read)

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6. As in another thread here wishing for hearings on the 2016 hack, which is not our system.

That is, we don't take timely steps to expose and fix things. We let things happen until, like, *fifty* years later with the JFK assassination conduct a little commission that revises the findings from back when.

And back to how we all got here - because of Coup 2000 - probably all of us remember our leaders on a stage vowing to do something about the electoral process that broke so spectacularly then. And nothing happened, and here we are again with the same outcome.

We all play "If I Were King of the World" like in college bull sessions, about how we would dictate common sense, sweeping fixes to how things work, and we list all the kinks of our political mechanisms, like the Electoral College. I would do away with almost all of the gridlocking Checks-and-Balances, all the Gerrymandering, turn into a single house of Congress and a parliamentary system, etc., etc., but the reality is that the real law of society is that a system like the Roman Empire has to collapse completely - from "A PRE-EXISTING ROT" as the essayist says - instead of rejuvenating. Amirite?!1