Quote Originally Posted by brett friggin favre View Post
actually we have retards who vote for pretty faces to run the country. do note that those who run the country are politicians. not scientists, not sociologists, not economists...politicians. that is why this current system sucks. they are trained to care about what people think of them, and not the facts of a given situation.
This. And that is another reason why there are no real changes that are needed - they are too busy worrying about how to stay in office to worry about the long run problems.