It doesn't really matter to the entrenched statists what's going on at the surface level. What's displayed to the public don't really mean shit so long as the schools, press, and banking are still owned in full.
Look at how much swamp trump managed to drain during is first four years. Some got opened up and exposed to the air, but nothing at all changed. If anything it just got deeper.
The biggest victory in all that time? The distrust of the press. Something tangential.
This is what people don't get about term limits. The agency system runs this country. Make all the term limits you want. The guy at the agency has been there through 5 administrations.
Our politicians delegated all this power away, because it was too much like work, and they wanted time to campaign and fuck off. But... "Hey... we will control the agencies through the budget"
Then "approving a budget is hard work, we'll just put them on a baseline budget with a 7% annual increase".
Now you have a new form of government
You're not a democracy.... but you never were.... You're not a Republic.... YOU'RE A FCUKIN BEURACRACY .. with corporatist elements (because any law being written is being written by mega-corp and their lobbyist) .
But think about it... every politician can die, and the governemnt continues to run AND GROW. Because we set up this financing system that just kicks in a 7% bump.... it's just 7% ......
But if we go back to think about the COMPOUNDING PRINCIPAL'S of money... What is a 7% growth???
Well the ol' rule of thumb is called the rule of 72. So a 7% growth means the money doubles every 10-ish years. Let's take that in.... We start with a government agency in 2000. in 2010 it's DOUBLE the size it was in 2000...But we are still growing.... in 2020 We are double what it was in 2010, but that's 4X bigger than it was in 2000, and in 2030 it will have doubled again, being 8X the size it was in 2000.
BUT LET"S CUT!!!! Let's cut the budget 2%. But the cut didn't come from the REAL budget, we will cut, the 7% down to 5% Growth and call that a cut.
It's all so fucked I don't see a realistic path to save it.
I mean, I know how to save it, but there is no way to get the measures needed to be implemented.