| Nope. This is not how the adult world works, and we are all in organizations to know how difficult it is to spin up teams, and get them to a degree of excellence. America with project 2025 has basically been burning libraries of experience, and it’s not going to come back without decades of slow, painful work to rebuild it. Since this concept is only visible to people who think and have seen organizational decay, it is going to have a minor impact on the zeitgeist. Instead voters are going to wonder every year why things aren’t better, not be interested in the boring institution building, and will vote whatever sounds good. Underpinning all of this, the fundamental flaw that is laying all democracies low, is the challenge of managing our information economies. We’ve developed ways to pollute and control our speech that don’t involve government control. We have information and media ecosystems that shape discourse by embracing abundance. Our legacy social defenses are “more speech = more good”, and so we have no new ideas how to deal with this new feature of modern life. The other factor is the increasing concentration of wealth, resulting in those elites being the only voters that count, since they end up consolidating power. The top few households matter more to the economy than everyone beneath them. These are the two big challenges that we have to address philosophically and practically for the advantages of democracy to kick in again. |