Editing Discharge Petition (section)

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I find our government system quite elegant, like eyes or the endocrine system. A series of hacks that competed well for a long time. "Try this, better or worse?" "better, but there's still a gap" ... "OK, what if we add this?"

In places it looks like an agglomeration of undirected searches, but having (in this example) a committee that handles the day-to-day, and the ability to override them if they get too big for their britches, is a nice solve.

Unfortunately, for this collection of hacks to serve society, it requires good. Either a supermajority of pro-social actors, or a simple majority of pro-social actors with strong critical thinking skills. Our system lacks either, at the moment.

Having those can be easy enough when the stakes are small. Most people are trying to be good most of the time; we're genetically coded for it. Allen and Paine and Madison sought integrity in a minor power.

With the wealth and power flowing through America now, it is tidally locked. It is the unwavering focus of the most avaricious and conniving. Musk and Thiel and Ballmer are what this ailing nation is.

"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821.