Added some Magna. Felt I was bidding against myself.

People have had plenty of time to figure out what kind of politician they want… it is a double problem of not understanding the need for an effective legal system and not being able to select the candidates.

People have had plenty of time to figure out that their democracy is and always has been a farce yet they keep getting duped by criminals (“politicians”) suffering from BPD (Bureaucratic Personality Disorder).
And the legal system has been a wreck for decades. Justice is clearly not the goal.

Hi Jerry, the lesson is plain: nothing but a major disaster will shake the sheeple from their belief that The Fed can cure the economy. DT

Ditto …………Matthew and DT……

It has been the Political Agenda to transfer wealth since Nixon closed the gold window. Subsequently Wall Street has been deregulated by removing all the statutory regulations put in place after the Great Depression including Glass Steagall. Simultaneously between the Courts and Congress, Citizens United was passed by the Supremes allowing special interests and Corporations to Buy politicians. Being able to Buy a politician redirects “elected officials” interests toward representing those that give them money. Therefore it is the Law that needs to be re-established to negate the purchase of the politicians by those given that authority by Citizens United and other Lobbying provisions. Let donations for election come only from the “citizens” and not some phony “corporate person”. You can overlay this same issue for budgetary activities and the massive debt. When you transfer the Treasury to Corporations around the World, are not audited and commit theft crimes with impunity and there is no interest in Congress or the Courts to stop it due to their own participation in the deregulation process and playing favorites with the tax system itself, or taking gratuities as if they were entitled due to being above the law contrary to the Constitution … then the obvious action that needs to be done is to re-establish legal controls consistent with the Constitution and reconstruct the campaign activity to eliminate monetary superiority of Special Interests. Saying it can’t be done is surrendering to an alternative political structure that will divorce the “citizen” from any input to the political system leaving the wealth of the Nation to those who stole the Treasury and the Congress. Being reduced to being a Serf, without a Constitution that guarantees fairness and equal treatment under the Law, will give those that think Law is not crucial to Democracy, without personal rights/freedoms, property and freewill.
(Add: Think about these same issues when talking “markets are all rigged”. It is pretty well agreed that they are. What’s going to stop them except regulations and regulators. Since Regulators don’t/can’t/overwhelmed these days in performing their jobs, getting rid of the Constitution gets rid of any semblance of Free Markets. There are no controls on criminality and the more nothing is done, the more crime will expand.)