We're not seeing the drawback; we're seeing the benefits. The system is designed to corrupt itself in little pieces, with citizens being free to share informati

We're not seeing the drawback; we're seeing the benefits. The system is designed to corrupt itself in little pieces, with citizens being free to share information and compare notes about how all the little pieces work. That's a beautiful system that, as far as I know, no other country has tried. So Georgia screwed the pooch on this. A newspaper in CA writes an article, and folks from the other 49 states get angry. Some folks may move out of Georgia. The lawmakers there -- no matter which party they are -- get embarrassed. They don't do that again. They probably retract whatever they did. Compare that to a winner-takes-all system, where one party is in control. You have one adjustment, sometimes only made after years of fighting with the minority party. It doesn't work, or it's crooked, or whatnot. There are no comparisons. There are no other places to go if you don't like it. There is no pushback from all the political parties to make this go away. Instead it's just circle-the-wagons time. This, and a few other stories in technology like it, are powerful examples of how a loosely federated and decentralized system can easily outperform every centralized system of governance there is. Cool stuff.