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I think a lot of people in the US still have a strong sense of patriotism/nationalism. Nationalism is a trick dictators/tyrants/corrupt govs have used for decades to control people.

The senate has an excellent track record for protecting the corporate elite, not the broad constituency.

There are only 100 seats in the US senate. How can 'we' participate in that? There are somewhere around 330 million people in the US, represented by just 100 people, who mostly act in their own self interest. How can one person properly represent on average ~3.3 million people?

What a sham.

I checked my calendar and it would appear the current year is 2018.

Do what brings you joy in every day.

A good book to read for anyone interested in economics is called "The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy", by Mervyn King, who was head of the Bank of England for about 10 years and during the financial crises of 2007-8. In the book, he discusses "the alchemy of money" which he roughly defines as how money isn't necessarily backed by any tangible assets. A lot of what happens in the banking system is pure alchemy. A fascinating read IMO.

Your opinion is irrelevant. The market has the last word, and the market has already decided Bitcoin is the most valuable and useful. You can verify this by looking at hash rate, market cap, and distribution (amongst other things). You may not like it, so feel free to downvote me, but the facts are indisputable.

Not necessarily. There are also some coins which use methods of securing the network which don't require incentives (ex: RaiBlocks).

Unfortunately I think that's where we're headed. They will copy the tech, call it "crypto", and now they're in the cool kids club.

Bitcoin, however, will remain king because it's the first (Lindy effect) and it still offers more than any of the clones.

How does this compare to something like Jekyll? Is the only difference that this is written in Python and Jekyll is Ruby?

It is indeed true; the winners always earn the privilege of defining morality and rewriting history to their liking.