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The Legal System Doesn't Work. Or More Accurately, It Doesn't Work For Anyone Except Those With The Most Resources. Not Because The System Is Corrupt. I Don't Think Our Legal System (at The Federal Level, At Least) Is At All Corrupt. I Mean Simply Because The Costs Of Our Legal System Are So Astonishingly High That Justice Can Practically Never Be Done.

So Uncritically Do We Accept The Idea Of Property In Culture That We Don't Even Question When The Control Of That Property Removes Our Ability, As A People, To Develop Our Culture Democratically.

I'm All For Experimenting With Sortition - Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens. But I Don't Favor Direct Democracy. We're Busy. We Have Lives. There Is Reddit. Who Has Time To Work Out The Right Answer To The Thousand Policy Choices A Gov't Must Make All The Time?

It's Fine To Talk About Politics With People You Agree With. But It Is Rude To Argue About Politics With People You Disagree With. Political Discourse Becomes Isolated, And Isolated Discourse Becomes More Extreme.

There Is Still The Illusion That If We Could Declare Corporations Are Not People Or That Money Is Not Speech, All Would Be Solved. Regardless Of The Good In Those Ideas, It Wouldn't.