Dude, random voting will never outperform organized crime. Larry Fink is in fact a mob boss even if he can't be called a Godfather. Democracy was dead as soon as they lifted the restrictions on how Congress could be manipulated by external forces.

So you think that the subversion of the economic system is fine because it leads to lower fruit & vegetable prices? I am guessing you have no morals.

I am fine with deporting personnel who are not here legally, It should be done with respect and the people who are providing the employment should be punished severely, as in prison time or more. But that is not what is happening. The FBI launched a huge "capture" of illegals at Ambiance Apparel and Home Depot in Los Angeles. Did they try to capture the owners of those businesses? As far as I know, they are sleeping in their own beds tonight while the people they employed are looking to be sent to Sudan or somesuch absurdity. Does any of that sound fair to anyone?

Did all citizens benefit from this "stable political status quo" or only "some" citizens? The paperwork that founded this absolutely amazing country specified that ALL citizens were to be afforded the "luxury" of: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Oh right, only 94.2% (sorry Tony) are afforded that luxury. Your stable status quo was completely unacceptable. It is better that everything be torn down than try to continue the charade. If you don't like it, then you shouldn't have treated some people less equally. Afraid of losing sovereignty? Maybe you shouldn't have fucked around because you ARE finding out.

The Republicans, literally The Bad Guys right now, are tearing down this country... and the Democrats (also bad guys, they did approve of Trumps cabinet) let/made them do it.

America is in severe danger of collapsing all because some people couldn't treat others fairly. Selfish Assholes.

Well sure; however, let's look at the implications with simple numbers: Assuming a group of 1 million people and not having success means slavery or death, then a 94.2% chance translates into 58 thousand people per year doomed to suffering and death. Now, odds are, you won't be one of those 58,000, so why worry about them?

For myself, I am NOT happy with a 94.2% chance of success. I guess we will agree to disagree.

You are speaking sense; however, the people in charge have never had ANY direct experience with a reality that tells them no. They are completely incapable of leading a project like this and they will not give up enough control to allow anyone who could do it, to actually do it.

No. We are locked into permanent incompetence now. Look at the Secretary of Defense. ROFL.

When a reservoir as large as the ocean overflows, it will be sudden and catastrophic at biblical proportions. Once it overflows, the changes will be extremely rapid and extremely overpowering. Some anaerobic bacteria may survive.

We may notice some issues as the reservoir fills up, but the real fun starts shortly after the reservoir is entirely full.

The overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest bears has caused a number of issues for park rangers. Look at garbage cans: How do you create something hard enough to get into, a bear can't figure it out, but a human can?

You are not wrong...

But FAR more than that is needed.

Well, you are in luck. The economic policies being enacted will reduce the population by quite a bit. The deaths will be due to starvation and exposure, but hey, your goal is achieved. Lucky you indeed. Your will is being done. (maybe not in the way you imagined? perhaps you thought war would reduce the population? voluntary death panels?)

I see why you posted anonymously:

The vast majority of those areas never had forests to begin with. The soil and weather patterns were insufficient to support trees. They were called "The Great Plains", not "The Great Forests".

So essentially, you are saying to kill off cash crops and plant trees that will die.

I get it, I really do. Cash is not more important than life... but, you can't let that blind you.

This is how you know your nation is utterly failed: no planning for the future, just sitting in filth, perfectly happy with what what they have but not even trying to maintain it. Ah well, here in America, we get to see what we will be in the not-to-distant future... assuming WW3 doesn't break out before then.

Sure, they have a few, but the British money is 101% involved in chasing more money for the already wealthy. There is zero money to bad had for infrastructure or future thinking.

This is a failure of government. It is happening right now in the USA, so it appears we are infected with the same disease that ended the British Empire.

What a miserable future of incompetence and waste. I guess our BREXIT will be NATOEXIT?

Interesting analogy. I wonder what your interpretation of "jumping out" is for the typical American citizen. If it involves voting for Democrats, then you are still too stupid to speak to.

A long time ago in the far off land of EFNET, there was an IRC channel called #c. They ran an eggdrop bot that was written in C++. I asked why that was since they were all C programmers and a bot isn't that hard to write. Same situation.

So I wrote a bot, in C, for the #c channel and it mimicked all of the used functions of the eggdrop that used to be there. The bot I created is still used there today. (in the #c channel, type clac 2+2, not calc (i made it usable with a common typo))