Reinventing Democracy
The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition.
What's the point of discussing reforms that aren't even possible in the current status quo? That's a good question, as any discussion of major systemic changes can be dismissed as pointless (since they'll never be adopted), and a distraction from the "real work" that can be managed within the current system.
On the other hand, we might ask: what's the po…
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