American quality of life is going to decline so precipitously with the loss of state capacity for basic regulation and most people won't even understand what hit them.
Nothing wrong with being anti democracy. Peter Thiel said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” and I find it hard to disagree with him at this point. The average American is at a 7th-8th grade reading level, for example. Not much pride in being dragged by that quality of electorate.
I don't see how that demonstrates that democracy is a failure. Maybe it demonstrates that democracy in America is a failure, but that's a stretch too IMO.
Anyway, what systems do you think would be better? Specifically curious how they'd be immune to the issues outlined in those links.
