"Extraordinarily Dangerous": Chip Gibbons Warns Kash Patel Would Turn FBI Powers on Trump's Enemies (youtube.com)Is Singapore, which is somewhat a beaurocracy, declining already? Suggested Samo.
100 Singapore-like city states would give people a lot of options for migration.
Maybe the Congress is the oligarchy and the presidency is one of the last remaining vestiges of democracy. The Congress, does it even have a democratic mandate? ‘Local democracy has already been defeated by beaurocracy.’ National democracy is on a test currently to see if it can defeat beaurocracy.
DARPA is maybe the most well-functioning part of the US government, but people don't really even understand why it works so well. Samo.
It would be possible for the Pentagon to spend 50% and do exactly what they do now. It would be possible. But how could anyone get there, to that efficiency? Politics and its financing has a lot to do with ‘retirement.’ Samo.