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Tell's avatar

North America has one unique opportunity, theoretically. That is to have several small countries with the same people and language. Where they can easily move from one nation to another if they feel they are treated badly. So states actually have to compete for people.

Much like "alliances" in an online game, which don't have elections but which have to compete for players, who can easily move to another alliance. Or like Brunei, where the people can just step across the border and live in Malaysia, with the same people, language and religion.

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I wouldn't rule out some form of monarchy entirely. This very interesting piece:

https://mythpilot.substack.com/p/how-to-found-a-great-house

points to a method by which something very similar to monarchy could be fostered even in the midst of our current democratic society, given a founder with sufficient scope of vision and access to a large but not by any means unrealistic resource base.

Convincing people to give up the franchise and return to a republican system in which the vote is much more restricted is going to be a hard sell. I can't see that happening inside the current order; quite the opposite, it seems determined to dilute it as much as possible, extending it to teenagers and non-citizens. However, the competence crisis is steadily degrading the ability of the central government to enforce order or provide prosperity - all it seems capable of are punitive spasms intended to temporarily preserve the parasitic class's privileges of plunder. Parallel institutions that provide what the central government cannot may be able to displace them, and such systems could easily be set up with stronger executive authority and a much more limited franchise.

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