OpenStars ,
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Keep in mind that people will PROMISE that, but then not deliver. Worse, they will promise it and then WILL deliver their distorted view of it - an example is Trump "draining the swamp", which he did, sort of, so long as you define "draining" as "installing" and "swamp/corruption" as "efficient and capable leadership, using fact-based policymaking decisions rather than whoever donates the most gets to wear the shiny hat".

If you can just remember that "good=bad" and vice versa, "up=down", "forward=reverse" and so on, then the fact that conservatives want to "innovate" the nation to "remove corruption" is a "good" thing!:-)

Sadly, whether we vote on it or not, powerful people are going to implement the 4th Turning regardless. Possibly they will use corporations to become powerful lobbying groups and then after taking over the government from the inside turn around and use the facade of it to take over, or maybe they'll just do an end-run around it altogether and let us have whatever silly little government we want, while they ignore it and do whatever they please free of interference from it. Most likely they will do both at the same time. Source: they have already been doing both of these for decades, and while corruption goes back beyond the dawn of humankind lately the swing does seem to have turned more towards rather than away from it.

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