The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Originality is the art of concealing your source. Traditional human government consists of thieves and murderers. By adopting the electoral process, we have weeded out the murderers. This is actually about as good as it gets.
Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. This thread is reserved for pointless semantic arguments. Please take your genuine concerns elsewhere. On the eighth day God created cats and was promptly ignored. Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.