When inviting people into your home, a good rule of thumb says avoid those who given a chance would steal your car, rape your wife, eat your children or beat up your dog. It's much the same in society. If you don't want your civilization to be a smoking ruin, you need to be selective about who you include as members.

This obvious rule hasn't crossed the minds of our puppet leaders. They're too busy counting the cash from people they use as cheaper labor, and then sell products to them. Since you pretty much have to be sociopathic to exchange lies for votes and not care about the outcome, they're not concerned about whatever disasters this will create.

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