tuff to put into the American world.

All right let me tell you my current thinking, very biased by all the stuff I see. My current thinking is it's very unlikely that America has been a real republic probably for a long time if ever. If ever. To me it seems sort of obvious that the pretend stuff we do, voting for things, is not how anything happens. Now I don't know who's in charge or if it changes or if it's some billionaires fighting it out and then we just find out who wins later. I don't know exactly what's happening but I do know there's very little evidence that we live in a genuine republic where the citizens become informed and then choose their leader. I don't think that's happened maybe for a long time.

And when you look at the lack of interest from both parties in fixing our election system — now there are members who do ask for it a lot but as a group neither the Republican Party nor the Democrats seem to show any real interest in fixing it because each of them controls states and one has to assume that they like controlling their state and winning in their state every time because they control the election so they don't want to give it up.

And maybe it would. So I think under that situation the working assumption is that we don't live in a republic. We live in a kleptocracy in which there's some group of billionaires who have figured out how to game the system to make more billions of dollars. That's what it seems like. So I would say that I don't feel like I've ever been part of a republic. That's my current opinion.

Now again I can't say that that's truth. I like to use the phrase a working assumption because it fits the facts better. If the facts were more compatible with us being a real democratically driven republic then I would favor that. I would take that as my view. But the facts really strongly argue against it. You know the entire situation with Trump, I don't think it could be much more clear than that.

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