It’s pretty unbelievable how many people think “give one person unlimited power to fix our problems” is a novel solution to anything
Throughout all of human history, the vast majority of awful people in power were consciously put there by people who wanted solutions to real problems
Our Founding Fathers’ insight was to say that it’s actually better the state struggle to solve some problems (including important ones!) than to create an extremely powerful apparatus that can be abused (whether that be with good or poor intentions, with or without popular support etc)
We’ve tried the whole dictator thing! Literally countless times in history! The reason we instead accept some amount of crime and “what the fuck why can’t we solve this?” is because dictators almost always end up being absolutely awful!
Throughout all of human history, the vast majority of awful people in power were consciously put there by people who wanted solutions to real problems
Our Founding Fathers’ insight was to say that it’s actually better the state struggle to solve some problems (including important ones!) than to create an extremely powerful apparatus that can be abused (whether that be with good or poor intentions, with or without popular support etc)
We’ve tried the whole dictator thing! Literally countless times in history! The reason we instead accept some amount of crime and “what the fuck why can’t we solve this?” is because dictators almost always end up being absolutely awful!