Hello, World: Is Your Government Driving You Crazy?

"That’s right. It may be a painful, repellent, nasty, killer joke with horrendous consequences, but it’s a joke. The structure that is supposed to yield up 'what the people want' is actually another structure whose features are unreported.
And the joke is, the people fall for it. Not just once, but over and over, on and on, year after year, decade after decade. It doesn’t matter what the evidence says. They fall for it."