'the will of the people' will take its rightful place alongside the divine right of kings and the mandate of heaven
I'm all about the will of the people, but actually as the wills of the persons, because the people doesn't have a will. Persons do (mobs may be somewhat of a willful organism, but an unfortunate state in which We the People are voting). My point about democratic elections is that they aren't respecting the divine right of persons to rule themselves, instead subjugating the whole of the people to what evil the largest minority of voters reckons least bad. As a rule democracies impose governance via pluripotent propaganda that seeks to make electorates into mobs, because that primal mob mentality eschews reason and informed self interest for communal existential needs that can dramatically reduce sovereign liberties in the (perceived) name of survival. I mean, some people voted for Trump because Haitians were eating cats and dogs in Springfield.
Almost everything democracies have elections about infringes on individual liberties to begin with, so continually deprecate and degrade American freedom. As Churchill pointed out, democracies are the worst form of government there is, except for all the rest. The more we end up ruled by a mob, the less we are sovereign, and that's my most valued metric, because I think it best promotes industry, civil society, and even law and order, all of which underlie the felicity of America, and the rest of the world too.
"...2019 as a start date..."
I meant 2020 as the start. Using the plandemic lockdowns to limit public participation in the economy, and to divert attention, the Fed started printing money into the public monetary supply, which had never before been done. The real problem with the economy in 2008 was too much interest and not enough money to pay it, because money is created as principal when a loan is made, but the interest payable on that principal isn't, and the more money that is created in a debt based monetary system, the worse the crisis of not enough money to make interest payments on that debt becomes.
In 2020 the creation of public debt used to purchase equities enabled money to become available without creating lots of debts that wouldn't be possible to be paid at interest because of the scarcity of money, which was the 2008 liar loan subtext no one mentioned, and what the massive increase in the money supply in 2020 and since has undertaken to solve. It's getting so that hard money lenders are creeping out of the dark crevices they've been hidden in since Dodd-Frank passed, and private home ownership might be able to reverse it's decline, but for the damnable inflation all that fresh money has caused, pushing home prices up ~50% in 4 years. Wages are lagging that by half, significantly impeding home ownership.
As usual interacting with you is one of the most intellectually invigorating things I get to do of a day.