New ballot initiative: Impose a new wealth tax on anyone in the top 1% of income earners. Redistribute the money directly to the people. > The problem

New ballot initiative: Impose a new wealth tax on anyone in the top 1% of income earners. Redistribute the money directly to the people. > The problem is with the idea of representative democracy at all. The real problem is faith in democracy itself. It's not about a smart electorate or a technocratic bureaucracy. It's about voting being inherently adversarial, with a voting majority (population minority) always on the offensive against the rest of the people. Many vote in defense of their property against their neighbors who would take it through the ballot box. Look at the 2016 US election. How many actually voted for either candidate, rather than against the other one? The only hope for the long-term survival of America is to decentralize power into smaller and smaller self-governing units, with free movement of people and property between those units. We are a union of states, after all (not that they teach republicanism in schools).