I'm not sure about fascist - corrupt, maybe. Mechanical connections do fail. I've seen it at my house, a split nut came loose on one leg of my service - really weird having half the house intermittently blink out. The pool bond connections are also likely to be buried in wet conditions which would increase the likelyhood of failure. It really wasn't hard to use a single piece of wire - the only place it's doubled up is where it runs up to the skimmer water bond and back down.

Bond wire in conduit - too funny. Maybe all bond lugs should be electrically isolated because electricity is dangerous when it flows.