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Mark Taylor's avatar

My best wishes for your work, Steven. The big problem we face is we do not live in a democracy. We live in a corporate state where -- as the Princeton Study proved -- any pretense of democracy died out long ago. The evidence is all around us in the homeless encampments, economic ruin of families due to medical debt and the general cruel callousness to everyone. While more and more American families fall into poverty and our young have virtually no chance at the "American dream" we somehow managed to send billions to the War Industry. I prefer to refer to the corporate governmental system of abuse we suffer under as "American DeMOCKracy".

It was great that three members of Congress stood with you, but it was only three out of 535 members. That tells you all one needs to know: Congress is perfectly comfortable with the corporate takeover of the American "JUST-Us" system. They are a cog in the machine, not a solution. They are on the payroll.

The one good bit of news is more and more people are growing estranged by the traitorous government we suffer under; they see or at least sense the con. More people see cases like yours and see their communities collapsing and are beginning (slowly) to awaken to the fact they have been screwed over and something far, far more effective needs to be done than walking to the polling centers every two years and piddling in the polling booth. Something FAR more effective is needed. It is building, but the question is will it happen before the totalitarian Crackdown happens and we are all in corporate courtrooms.

For those unfamiliar with the Princeton Study: "Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy" https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/princeton-study-us-no-longer-actual-democracy/#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20from%20Princeton%20spells%20bad%20news,an%20oligarchy%2C%20where%20wealthy%20elites%20wield%20most%20power.

Feel free to use any of my political artwork, if you wish: https://mark192.substack.com/

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Alexander Kurz's avatar

I am wondering whether part of the problem is that we do not have a quantifiable theory of power. For example, we think about tax as a means to fund the government. But we do not think about tax as means to redistribute power. A big-is-bad tax redistributed to citizens as a dividend (universal basic income) could go a long way to strengthen democracy.

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