Murder and Mass Imprisonment | This is What Good Government Looks Like

People in the U.S. complain about the two party system. Wall Street runs the country because there are only two parties. They say a multi-party system would be better.

People in Canada complain about the parliamentary system. The representation isn’t fair. Proportional representation would be better.

People in Europe with proportional representation are complaining about something else. Austerity, immigration. There is always something wrong. There is always something to fix, something that could be better.

I’m all for fixing things, but sometimes you just need to throw something out. Sometimes the effort and resources required to fix something don’t make sense.

There are certainly problems with the way the U.S. is governed. People look at the corruption and the absurdity of a two party system, they look at all the corporate money going to politicians, and they say well there is obviously a problem here. They compare it to the few well-functioning countries in Europe and say “we need to be more like that.”

Instead of comparing to the few best governments around the world, why don’t we compare to all governments?

There are so many things wrong with the U.S. government. Killing innocent people abroad, imprisoning millions of people at home, and cops shooting unarmed teenagers. These are things that people legitimately should be angry about, but instead of saying it is a problem with THIS government, people should realize that this is a problem with government in general.

If you look around the world at the various governments, you see that the horror of this one is pretty good in comparison. All of this corruption, immorality, and violence, and this is actually what a reasonably good government looks like. For the vast majority of people in the world, it is WAY WORSE than this.

Comparing to the broad spectrum of government makes it easier to see that all these problems were trying to fix aren’t things that have broken and can to be fixed, but rather issues that are inherent in the system. When you try to control the world you end up with corruption and chaos.

When you look at government as an experiment, you see that the result is corruption, killing, and chaos. The conclusion should be a question, what are the alternatives?