Go back to Larry Lessig's inspiration from Aaron Swartz: the political OS is broken. In its current form, it is a pantomime theater that ping-pongs between manu

Go back to Larry Lessig's inspiration from Aaron Swartz: the political OS is broken. In its current form, it is a pantomime theater that ping-pongs between manufactured populism and stooges of the billionaires. It cannot be fixed from within, much less a third party, because there are no incentives or motivations to stop feeding from the trough of so much fucking money and then the political class has the gaul to pretend that they're not bribes. John McCain's campaign finance reform, Larry Lessig's single-issue candidacy, and Yang's POTUS run underscore the futility of this Sisyphean task. The only possible change to the US political order would be the concerted effort of ~10M of nonviolent protestors shutting down DC, demanding campaign finance reform, and recalling the most corrupt elected officials. Otherwise, in the absence of gamified popularity contests, a radical experiment for public administration would be a variant of sortition pulling from numerous professional memberships, as an alternative to the corrupting power of influence accumulation powered by media buys. I think Socrates would agree that too much (corrupt or misinformed) democracy doesn't necessarily lead to excellence or ethical outcomes. PS: An incomplete list of representatives who are unfit for office: - Mitch McConnell - Diane Feinstein - Nancy Pelosi - Marjorie Taylor Greene - Joe Manchin - George Santos - Kyrsten Sinema - Douglas Vincent Mastriano - Jim Bob Duggar - Madison Cawthorn (Certain ones omitted for obvious reasons. Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I'm wondering if dysinformation campaigns by non-aligned countries have indeed greatly bolstered internal divisions.)