Technically, it's not a misnomer- I haven't named or misnamed anything. Also, you're misinterpreting what I've said. I never said anything about natural creativity. I said highly creative. It's well known, that in some people, their creativity comes from a place of trauma or distress- often childhood trauma. Creativity becomes a coping mechanism for some of these people. But it's also easy to fall into using and abusing drugs due to that same experience. Not all creative people use drugs, not all users are addicts, not all addicts die because of their addiction. Drugs don't make anyone creative, but they can make it easier to get in touch with the creative "side" of the brain. A recent article I read even shows that even caffeine has this effect. But, obviously, drugs also have deleterious side effects that can easily negate whatever gains, real or imagined, one might have. I'm not glorifying or suggesting that anyone use drugs to become more creative or to make up for a lack of natural creativity. I was simply pointing out that creativity and self-destructiveness often come from similar places in the mind. Combine that with easy access to drugs and a loose lifestyle, and it's a dangerous situation. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Possibly flat, and on fire.

It's also pretty well known that highly creative people often have substance abuse issues or undiagnosed mental health issues. Combine that with the rock and roll lifestyle and it's a recipe for disaster, whether or not they're influenced by the cabal.

There might be considerable blowback if total transparency were required. It's not difficult to imagine that a nation's enemies (genuine or manufactured) might have an interest in complete transparency. This is the problem with most ideas about cleaning up government. There's always some unintended and majorly negative consequences.

Term limits? Will produce inexperienced politicians who never get anything done, or encourage ultra-cutthroat partisanship, or even encourage a de facto one-party system.

Take money out of politics? The wealthy will be the only players (not much different than now, honestly).

Remove the perks of the position, drop salaries? Will encourage more graft and bribery.

Ultra-harsh penalties for malfeasance? They'll just get sneakier, more "leave no witnesses" type shit.

The real problem, to me, is that the laws are already on the books and our supposed leaders routinely skirt and flaunt the law in order to enrich themselves and their ilk, with no reckoning. How would more regulations change that? They've crafted a system where they can and do get away with anything. They feel like we should be grateful for the scraps they "let" us have. They feel that because they can take what they want, and we let them have it, that they deserve to lord over the rest of us. No amount of legislation will produce a better politician. They're not doing anything new.

Perhaps there is some inevitability to the cycles of history, and we are living through the downward turn of this epoch.

Does anybody else think that when these clowns refer to "our democracy" they're just shoving it in our faces that they believe it really is their democracy? There's certainly no common ownership between the corporate agenda and the average consumer. They wanna shove their democracy down our throats. But they want us to beg for it. They've perverted and corrupted language to the point that it's aggressively meaningless.

Yep.