14 October

My politics? Get rid of all elections, all referendums. All political team sports (parties). There are very simple, clear things that need doing to fix our worst problems, none of which need a popularity-based mechanism as a roadblock. Something being popular is no measure at all of it being right, anybody who raises or teaches kids or manages staff knows that. Elections and parties are high school culture grafted onto adult life. We all know high school runs on popularity. Also why we love team sports, the same social mechanism. We know how to get rid of Covid, how to fix climate change, how to repair roads, etc. We can’t do any of those things because of the roadblock of popularity politics.