Theorycel politics are a dead end

There is no magic set of political policies that can solve our economic and social problems, nor any political system that can reliably implement such nonexistent policies. Some policies and laws are better than others, but no system can consistently determine which policies are best and enforce them effectively.

• Dictatorships can work but they are far too leader dependent to function consistently¹.

• Oligarchies can’t solve problems because groups strive towards consensus, not truth or value.

• Marxism doesn’t work because humans are innately self-motivated².

• Naive liberalism doesn’t work if everybody else isn’t a naive liberal³.

• Patchwork (states compete against each other) is a joke because the size of human states is not something that can be set by an extraneous political actor⁴.

• Democracy doesn’t work because the public have no incentive or ability to determine which policies work.

• Populism (democracy votes for the dictator) doesn’t work because the kinds of characteristics that make somebody a good populist and a good ruler are not that highly correlated.

• Anarchism devolves into polycentric law (competing law systems that citizens can voluntarily subscribe to until somebody wins the monopoly on violence).

• Futarchy (rule by prediction markets) doesn’t work because good political policies cannot be reduced to the ability to increase good numbers or decrease bad numbers.