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  What's insane is the same story throughout human history that is it was the system that brought wealth and prosperity. So those who were already prospering destroyed the system within bringing everyone down. Like you figure humans would have learned this lesson a few thousand times over already.
context: They don't have the votes to block it, fortunately. >
  
  Couldn't McCarthy just not bring it up for a vote? >
  
  If he wants to go against the majority within his own party to appease people like Gaetz, sure. >
  
  The house rules they adopted allow the Russian caucus to force another vote for speaker.
  The GOP is controlled by Putin, because their majority is dependent on a minority that is controlled by him. >
  
  “The GOP is controlled by Putin”
  Jack pot. The GOP has sold our country out. >
  
  Republicans want an unstable world because it helps them argue “you need hard liners like us to save you in this uncertain time!”
  Peace is bad for their political prospects, so escalating global tensions is in their favor. >
  
  This is how our current era will end. Individual selfish politicians looking to increase their power at the expense of the system, and thinking that it couldn't possibly collapse or even worse, just not caring.
  It only takes a few idiots to cause untold suffering, and as the war in Ukraine demonstrated, in a global supply chain, everything is connected. >
  
  
  This is how our current era will end. Individual selfish politicians looking to increase their power at the expense of the system, and thinking that it couldn't possibly collapse or even worse, just not caring.
  
  This pretty much perfectly describes the downfall of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Constantly striving for individual power and victories by lower lords who intentionally crippled their empires ability to stop them while the empires slowly collapsed both internally and externally.