After seeing how cowardly, stupid, corrupt and lazy each and every provincial premiere and more or less everyone at the federal level of government is, I'm fuckin' convinced.
Seriously, could we have wound up with worse leaders in any other way? The way I see it if we had, say a constitutional monarchy like the country of Togo, our odds would still be about 85% of being better off since there's no way a government could handle things worse.
I’m convinced that the Chinese has computer programs that can build a model of a persons personality and predict their response to various inputs. They have built a model for all prominent world leaders, and each crisis we have had is to solicit a specific response. They are indirectly controlling our leaders and media to break us down.