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I'm not sure we have to 'rely' on them. This is just a guy that made a lot of money trying to make the world a better place. I don't think there's anything to be sad about here.

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I think it's very sad that the democrats system can't address issues like this. It simply shouldn't need rich guys trying to make the world a better place. I am also always skeptical of billionaire do-gooders if you consider that you rarely become a billionaire by being a nice altruistic guy.

Well no, every system requires people with power to be generally good. No system survives with only bad actors. You’re incorrectly assuming a generous billionaire isn’t a feature of capitalism / democracy.

The USA isn't democratic. And no, I don't mean it's a "Republic" either. It's a corrupt system that no longer works as originally intended.

As originally intended was a bad system, with among other things strong aristocratic tendencies—not to mention you know, legal slavery. So it’s not a bad thing that it doesn’t work as originally intended.

Even after all these years of revisionism the school systems could still do with less hagiographic depictions of the revolutionary era.

It's a difficult and complicated issue. I don't think it's been shown that our system "can't" address it. It's just taking a while to get it sorted out. I'd like it to go faster, but generally our system works pretty well, and converges slowly on good solutions to things. While i'd like it to be faster, I don't think it ought to be rushed either. Healthcare is both important and difficult to get right.

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