To the editor,
"It's the economy, stupid." Where have we heard that before? Suppose it is true, what then? Would it explain why we are at war almost all the time, because we have a war economy? The reds used to claim that unregulated capitalism cannot sustain itself without periodic wars to bolster the ecnomy when it slumps. as it is doing now. There must be a better way. Communism flopped. Is capitalism next to flop? It would seem that both systems were incapable of the will to develop a more efficient system. Why is that? Is it because both systems tended to elevate the biggest loudmouths to greater and greater positions of power to the point of reaching the point of absurdity in justifying failing systems?
We often hear that democracy is the worst system there is, except for all of the other systems.
Our own founders even said that democracy is the worst system of government possible. That is why they opted for a republic. Now we can see that too could be and is corrupted by lobbyists representing the upper class. Is it high time to go back to the drawing boards and develop a system that works? Like government of the people, for people and of the people, instead of the corporations?
Jim Reine
Intl Falls, MN