Bureaucracy feeds on itself. Civil servants have to do something with their bright minds. So they hire more people, write more regulations, invent new laws.
Then, they invent clever theories for why their work is in the public interest, their department is essential to democracy, their jobs are holiest.
The citizen is powerless. All he can do is vote every couple of years. Vote among two preselected candidates. Each candidate represents one half of the population, not his individual views.
Is that democracy? The war between two camps of a few hundred politicians each representing 50% of the population?
America is the greatest democracy there ever was. America is the original modern democracy. Its founding teaches us why it was a democracy in the first place.
American democracy wasn't setup as a way to organize life. Its original goal was to prevent the government from doing just that.
Early American democracy was capitalist democracy. To each his own property, and within that property, the freedom to organize its own government. Enforced through the constitution, protected by the Arms of its citizens.
It is through this system of freedoms, that America became the greatest nation in the world, and ultimately went about to dominate it.
Through the superior system of capitalist democracy, America became very rich and powerful.
In the 1930s, America still suffered from an inferiority complex toward Europe. Yet already, its GPD per capita was 50% higher than in Germany, its infrastructure, access to consumer goods, and agricultural productivity were all much better.
WW2 caused the end of capitalist democracy. Because America could win the world, it did. And with this, justifications for an almighty government started to compound.
Before FDR, business was the only establishment. But after WW2, a second establishment was born: the government official.
Nobody could call for less government during the Cold War.
How hard is it to resist the desire to lord over the world?
What started as a temporary government expansion during the FDR-era became a Government-era that lasted unimpeded for 50 years.
It's a mistake to confuse America's greatness with its Federal Government dominance over the world. How great would America be today, had it left geopolitics to Europe and stayed focused on business and technology for another hundred years?
The Second Amendment is the critical insight of the constitution. It implies that, unconstrained, the government will naturally expand towards tyranny. And thus the citizen must be armed.
Firearms protect against the explicit, Orwellian, tyranny. But it's powerless against the dystopia of Aldous Huxley. Showered in regulations, subsidies, hidden taxes, and welfare handcuffs, citizens are deprived of their liberties, but guns are an inappropriate weapon to fight back.
Ridiculed, here is how the Welfare State works: the government robs its citizens as discreetly as possible; it spreads the money in the form of gifts; it tells everyone to not look too much into the robbery.
This is studied in economics and political theory under the label "Public Choice". The scale and deceptive nature of taxation and bureaucracy is what undermines firearms as an efficient government immune system.
One example: politicians target a voter minority, offer a handout, and raise the taxes of everyone by 0.01%. Voters swallow the tax increase pill, the voter minority is secured for the next election. Political life becomes a race of such maneuvers.
This only works because citizens are blinded, and powerless to stop the schemes. For American capitalist democracy to thrive again, Americans need new weapons: information weapons for total transparency and oversight, software is the modern firearm.
Monitoring is the barrel. With total awareness of political plots and consequences, the citizens and their companies aim the barrel at the regulation that needs to be shot down.
Software can aggregate all the information, language models can process all that information, and tailor monitoring to the individual company and citizen.
Trade associations are the powder. Monitoring builds up resentment. Associations can unite their capital and transform this resentment into potential power.
Software can coordinate dynamic trade associations. Instead of large industry specific interest groups, companies and citizens can reconfigure themselves dynamically in associations according to the current specific regulation that affects them. It's coordinated capital allocation.
Lobbying is the bullet. With lobbying, capitalists can work on policies to poison them, educate politicians, leverage the media to garner voter support and pressure elected officials.
Software can help them identify issues, garner funds through dynamic trade associations, plan their attack and execute it ruthlessly.
Low lobbying liquidity is a disease. When only a few large companies can fund insider Washington lobbyists, they use it for regulatory capture. The larger a company, the more it functions like government, it is predictable they thus end up colluding with it.
The cure is not to ban lobbying. The cure is to 100x the size of the lobbying market. In a high liquidity lobbying market, a million concerned American car owners are more efficient than the 6 large automakers to kill the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act".
In a free society, money measures how useful you are. People give you money when you give them something they want in exchange.
Money is therefore the best way to weight someone's voice in a democracy; real democracy is capitalist democracy.
A lobbying marketplace powered by AI monitoring software is the most democratic tool, it is the immune system against evil government.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.