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No, it's a real problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 02:26 PM EDT
Action by Congress (or the Supreme Court) would be preferable, precisely for the
reasons that the grandparent said.

Sadly, (sane) action from Congress does not look likely in the foreseeable
future. The Supreme Court is making some progress, though.

MSS2

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might be on to something
Authored by: ukjaybrat on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:08 PM EDT
not to say i agree with EVERYTHING (s)he said, but it is
possible companies like Apple, Orcale, Microsoft, etc. will
pump a lot of donation to whatever campaign opposes whatever
reform we could see in the next couple years.

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IANAL

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I think you're mistaken.
Authored by: Tyro on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:16 PM EDT
Sorry, but that's a real problem. I'm not really sure that it's as innocent as
the grandparent is portraying it as, however. There seems to be an lot of money
flowing into various things that sustain the problem. This isn't to say that it
couldn't be an innocent consequence of the design of the system...those who go
into politics are generally those interested in control, and those who wind up
at the top are much more biased in that direction, but it doesn't look as if
that kind of passive bias entirely explains the history of the last few decades.
It just makes it easy to force action in that direction.

This has happened before, as countries slipped out of a dominant position. It
seems to encourage the paranoid-jingoistic element. Usually the major result is
to speed the rate of decline, but in many cases it also has lead to a war with
an unreasonably underrated opponent, which has been disastrously lost. (The
closest current counterpart I can think of would be if the US got into a
cyberwar with China. The US would clearly lose drastically, though people
around the world would be hurt. Genuine physical war between major powers is
currently too destructive to have any historic parallel. It's mythically
similar to Samson in the temple...though I have a really hard time picturing the
US as the unjustly injured party. Or the Giantesses in Froda's mill, but again
I have a really hard time picturing the US as the unjustly injured party.
[Without the "unjustly" it becomes quite reasonable.])

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