You'd've thunk everyone north of Stevenage would have gotten the message when the mines closed down: we want you all to gracefully just die out. Please stop flopping about on the deck, and suffocate with a bit of self-respect.
On point, though- it's not so out of the question. Germany and Japan were being financially propped up by the U.S. for decades after the war, mostly so they could continue to remain viable trading hubs, whilst the UK was repaying WWII debts to the U.S. up until a few years ago for Roosevelt's covert help prior to actually getting involved. Seems a bit wonky that allies in the same cause carry on extorting each other over fifty years after the war ended.
Sanshee seems to be against any tweaking to the current political paradigm, one in which every successful presidential candidate in the last few decades has also, coincidentally, been the one who spent the most money on their campaign. Why not just get rid of the whole election sham and replace it with Give the victory to whoever has the most money?
Just because we fought for democracy doesn't mean it can't be tweaked and improved according to society's vicissitudes. The UK, for example, is one of only two countries in Europe which doesn't have proportional representation. We could never possibly have elected a Syriza, or anything outside of the current dynamic, without it (and unfortunately, the Liberals are the only ones who seem at all interested in PR). Right now, we and America are anchored down to a mid-19th century system of winner takes all. With Proportional Representation, every vote really does count, as even if the party we voted for doesn't get into government, they will have a say in how it's run.
There's a scene in the first movie in the Up series of documentaries in which the richer of the kids are asked what they want to do when they grow up. They all say something along the lines of, "I will go to Eton, then Cambridge, and become a barrister, then a judge". Without exception, this is exactly what they end up doing- we follow them every seven years as they travel undeviatingly along the elevator of power. These are the types who end up ruling us, and that whole infrastructure has to be changed. On top of this, the papers are in the pockets of cats like Murdoch (who only agreed to get behind Blair because Blair agreed to help him any way he could after getting elected), and if there isn't an informed electorate then elections are utterly irrelevant.
Only a retrogressive status quodiot would be rooting for Syriza's failure.
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