Why do we keep electing politicians who make promises that cannot be kept?

Too much, or too little, government destroys modern societies.

You can fool all of the people some of the time... and Obama's time of fooling is just about up.

Like Somalia, Detroit is supported by outside contributions, but the pirates spend their loot much more carefully.

Colonialism bankrupted the colonial powers.

Why aren't there wars of conquest anymore?

...do anything else useful anymore?

Why don't we already have clean power sources? It's a conspiracy!

We've had a warning. Worse is coming.

Not much.