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On 2025-02-09 8:06 a.m., Ed P wrote:
> On 2/9/2025 2:31 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> On 2025-02-09, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>>> Congress would work well if they were government employees.  Their real
>>> income and being is derived from lobbyists. For $250 million you can buy
>>> a President.
>>
>>
>> Stay tuned. Hopefully, the whole rat-fest will soon be exposed. Are you
>> excited? I am.
>> But being a cynic, I expect the same old, same old.
> 
> The problem is, the ones doing the exposing are possibly even worse.  Do 
> you want a country run by billionaires? Will they be looking out for 
> YOUR best interests?
> 
> Some of the goal is good, much is not.  Have you read Project 2025? 
> Scary what we will end up with if implemented.

You'll end up in a sort of cross between an oligarchy and a theocracy.
Just look at Russia and Iran!