Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence

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103. I think that is the heart of the matter

.. that our Constitution is fatally flawed because it is based upon the false concept of the nation-state, which was something concocted for the benefit of the ruling classes. The royals made a deal with the rich and rising merchant class to keep the angry mobs at bay; to present the illusion of choice via the ballot box.

To wit, only a global direct democracy will do. We have the technology to implement it, but people are still waving their flags and deeply mired in their racist ways, by the design of the global 1%.

The fact that it has always tended to be that way appears to be an artifact of our species' long climb out of isolation, deprivation and superstitious fear.

Whenever someone says, "we just need a leader who..." I immediately feel the wrongness of that way of thinking. Human-created hierarchies have always failed, because the model is "unnatural", in that nature doesn't really work that way. Physics doesn't really work that way. Hierarchies are an important organizing tool for analyzing data, but a lousy way to organize a society.

I suppose that unless a sufficient number of people can begin to feel safe and secure enough to "live another day", and have the time to wise up, speak out, and then act as one people of this planet, we shall continue to be misguided by demagogues, and the priests and enforcers who placate them, in exchange for better status in the social hierarchy.

Oh, but what do I know about it, really?