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It's a working one because Amazon kept packages coming to your door during the pandemic and the government accelerated the development of vaccines with Warp Spe

It's a working one because Amazon kept packages coming to your door during the pandemic and the government accelerated the development of vaccines with Warp Speed and because scientists did their job, not because school teachers and governors block each other over minuscule nonsense. The US works despite it's multi-layer democracy, not because of it. All the parts that work aren't democratic.

bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This is quite correct. All of the parts of the United States that actually work are absolute monarchies.
- danielrpa 5y ago
  But you are not required to be under the full rule of the "kings" and "queens". I don't have much problem doing business with a "monarchy" if you want to call it this way. The problem is when all these "monarchies" are reporting to an ultimate absolute ruler you can't escape...
  - bruiseralmighty 5y ago
    Yes. You're a bit vague in what you mean here, but I will assume that you mean a private monopoly like Google or the Coke-Pepsi duopoly. I don't necessarily disagree with your take, but I take the same concept and run it one step further up the chain as an indictment of government as it is practiced today. For example, we gave the responsibility of arbitrating disputes in a just way to a single monopolistic entity and then become surprised when this entity provides less justice (harsher sentences for drug crimes, racial/gender bias, etc.) for a higher cost (effectively impossible to represent yourself, lengthy trial periods, arbitration process that take so long and cost so much that 'lawfare' is a common parlance). Monopolies are bad full stop. It is simply harder to replace the governmental kind.
kybernetyk 5y ago
Democracy is a soft form of communism. So no wonder the democratic parts don’t work.
andrekandre 5y ago
>The US works despite it's multi-layer democracy, not because of it. what kind of system should we have instead?

bruiseralmighty 5y ago

This is quite correct. All of the parts of the United States that actually work are absolute monarchies.

danielrpa 5y ago
But you are not required to be under the full rule of the "kings" and "queens". I don't have much problem doing business with a "monarchy" if you want to call it this way. The problem is when all these "monarchies" are reporting to an ultimate absolute ruler you can't escape...
- bruiseralmighty 5y ago
  Yes. You're a bit vague in what you mean here, but I will assume that you mean a private monopoly like Google or the Coke-Pepsi duopoly. I don't necessarily disagree with your take, but I take the same concept and run it one step further up the chain as an indictment of government as it is practiced today. For example, we gave the responsibility of arbitrating disputes in a just way to a single monopolistic entity and then become surprised when this entity provides less justice (harsher sentences for drug crimes, racial/gender bias, etc.) for a higher cost (effectively impossible to represent yourself, lengthy trial periods, arbitration process that take so long and cost so much that 'lawfare' is a common parlance). Monopolies are bad full stop. It is simply harder to replace the governmental kind.

kybernetyk 5y ago

Democracy is a soft form of communism. So no wonder the democratic parts don’t work.

andrekandre 5y ago

>The US works despite it's multi-layer democracy, not because of it. what kind of system should we have instead?