Someone just called Rush Limbaugh because Rep. Jason Altmire allegedly said, regarding the “Health care” bill that he couldn’t worry about what was going to happen thirty years from now.

The person was outraged, but this is simply the nature of democratic governance.  It puts people in power who have no more long-term interest in the future of the nation than the average person.

But these elected office-holders are required to make decisions that affect the long-term interest of the nation.

And these elected office-holders can greatly better themselves and their immediate circle of family and friends by 1) doing things that keep themselves in office and 2) simply acquire stuff they can take with them (or their family and friends) when they leave office.

And many of these opportunities will be at the expense of the long-term good of the nation.

It is superstitious irrationality to expect such a system to work in the best interest of the nation.  What is happening to our country could not be otherwise.  Ruin was always our fate.  Democracies are only trajectories to mass destruction.