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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole generation needs to go.

Remember what this generation of leaders inherited: the world at America’s feet after the fall of the USSR, a Russia eating out of our hand, a China with a GDP less than 7% of America’s (in 1991).

And then, any mistakes we made in the ‘90s were wiped away by 9/11, when the whole world - Russia, China, even Iran - was offering genuine sympathy and ready to renew relations.

An even halfway competent leadership class could’ve firmly established America’s leadership position for the next hundred years just by picking the lowest hanging fruit, but instead ours squandered it all in a few decades.

The fruits of this generation in American leadership is: quagmire in Afghanistan, war in Iraq under false pretenses, declining life expectancy, demographic collapse in the West.

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This is a great point. It is apparent that the quality of leadership in our Federal Government has deteriorated in recent decades. I will stop short of saying the whole generation needs to go as there are some high quality individuals with genuinely good intent mixed in with our collective bunch of elected government officials. Partisanship has always reared it's ugly head in our two party system but throughout most of our nation's history, we've been able to rely on our government to function as it should while addressing key issues of the time and solving problems that can be solved through legislation. Why has there been a decline in government leadership and functionality? Our two major political parties and their network of wealthy donors have steadily gained more and more of a controlling influence over which candidates the American people have as viable options to vote for and I think this trend could have a lot to do with the decline. The candidate that has the most support from the most wealthy and powerful entities is often times not the the most qualified, best fit person for the role in government they are seeking. A small network of powerful and wealthy people/entities having way more than their fair share of influence in politics has to be a deterrent for many of our best and brightest people that may have otherwise chosen to enter the political arena in a different era. [/quote]

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