We have all already adjusted to the realities of the situation, MtheGM. We live with those realities.

I myself stated that it's probably not going to change soon, because people (like dogs, monkeys, etc) strenuously resist change. They're afraid of it...and they're also victims of their own inertia.

Corrupt ruling systems can take great comfort in the above weaknesses of the human population, because it helps keep them in power longer. ;-) A lazy and unresponsive public are easily dominated by an elite few.

Our present political systems are flawed, obviously...as are all political systems. They lie somewhere between the possible extremes, which is to say: They could be a lot worse than they are. And they could be a lot better than they are.

Why are you taking issue with certain people here discussing ways in which our present political systems could be improved upon? What is harmful in doing so? How does it indicate a disconnect with "reality" to so?

Or is it that you are just trying to win the ongoing argument that you're having with McGrath? If so, you're engaged in what amounts to a never-ending feedback loop which will only end when one or another of the participants gets too bored with the whole thing to continue. ;-)

And when I get too bored with it, you won't hear any more from me about it either. ;-)

That's the way it works here.

When it's all over, though, no one will have won anything.