All right! I never knew we shared so many views on things regarding the state. Volunteer military, volunteer taxation, completely agree. In fact, once these things become fully optional, there may be a much greater incentive to participate. Also, local power should be above regional power, regional above state, state above federation, and no federal gov't, period.
The only thing I don't agree on is voting on paper. Since that is so much easier to forge, it would require a much greater oversight, which itself is corruptible. Instead, I favor a system that is specifically built to be resistant to these flaws. That's why I have my hopes set high on blockchain technology. Not only would it make it much easier to guarantee no more than one, instantly counted vote for every individual, but it could even automatize representation, if not completely bring things down to the direct level.
Thank you for your comment! One thing I really enjoy about people who are attracted to immutable and (mostly) censorship-free blogging, is that they are much more able to see the reality through the programming, that a more just society can only be achieved when the calculator is accurate. That nothing can be done to fix the problem, unless the presumptions are accurate.
The paper voting is (in my opinion) an emergency stop-gap. It's fine to use digital technology, maybe even blockchain, for voting - but the system in place now is completely fraudulent. If we switch from a fraudulent digital system to a "secure" digital system, it will go terribly wrong. It will lend a false assurance that the results are accurate, when the switch-a-roo happens en route, outside what is immutable. Garbage in, immutable garbage out.
The more information that's coming out, the more evidence is detected about how enemies foreign and domestic have hijacked our election system, taking away the will of the people, the more need we have for some sort of drastic election reform. Time to start over with paper ballots with ID required and NO ABSENTEE BALLOTS. We can upgrade from there.
If we can require ID to prevent underage drinking and not call it alcohol suppression, we can require ID to prevent fraudulent voting and not call it voter suppression.
If we want our child to pass the test, they can't be absent from school that day. If we want to vote, we can't be absent November 4th.
Exactly, the rigged calculator. That's one of the things 1984 exemplifies so well: 2+2 will never be 5, no matter with how much force you threaten people to say so. However, it's also true that once someone has been broken into accepting 2+2 to be 5, it will seem so true to them, that the 2+2=4 will cause serious problems for them. Sadly, this is precisely what I see happening. Boy, how those broken calculators resist simple reason!
I agree that trying to fix a system that has been flawed / corrupted for so long will only end up making it all worse, and starting out from scratch would be a better approach. In this sense, I would even say that the body of issuing and validating an ID may be just as flawed, let alone the ID itself.
Oh, this brings to mind my shocking incredulity when I saw American under-21-year-olds forging official documents with the greatest ease, as kind of a social pastime, only to get to indulge in the other pastime of drinking. In comparison, back in Germany I could legally buy myself a beer at 16, but even if I'd tried to do so before, nobody would have ever asked me for an ID. If they thought I looked too much like a kid (very likely if one is under 16), they would simply refuse the sale. But what was I trying to say here? Oh, of course: alcohol suppression, and ID fraud.
IDs can be faked, paper ballots can be forged, etc etc. There's no way to eliminate all voter/election fraud, the idea is to make it impossible to steal an election.
As "we the people" become more and more dissatisfied with the "leadership" we always think we can "vote the bums out", but once that power is taken away, it doesn't mater how much we chant "let's go Brandon". There will always be some sort of demonic Brandon ruling over us, until something is fixed.