[shafyy]

> BTW this strategy has always been available, it’s just that career politicians aren’t incentivized to do this for “good” because they want long political careers.

Or, you know, maybe it's also because politicians who are not total psychos don't want to fuck over an entire country for their own gains.

[gitaarik]

Yes, or the psychos that were in control before were very happy with how the money machine was running for them, so they didn't need to change anything.

Now that some other psychos are taking over, the people that got used to the previous psychos are uneasy because change it not easy, especially rigorous change.

But maybe this will make people actually realize that the system was always flawed. The current administration just exposes that.

[shafyy]

How can you even compare the level of psycho-ness of the Biden administration to the Trump administration?