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Yes, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. In fact that is the price of all goods. We must work to maintain it. And yes, we should live our lives, so it isn't lived for us...really reminds me I need to get my own house in order (maybe find my Peterson Book and get into it) I think it is...

Modern democracy at least. I am thinking we need to have selection by lot, though we can always qualify who is selected and narrow it by office. And always combine it with other mechanisms to balance democracy with oligarchy (or preferably Aristocracy and/or the middle men). Maybe we can even...

Then maybe we should devolve power more, so we can actually run things sensibly...I am pretty sure we both believe in devolution of power to the lowest efficient level?

In that sense, yes. All governments are oligarhical. I am more leaning on the classical or Aristotlean definition. Rule of the Elite, in their own interest, as opposed to the common.

Actually, that is the case for elective oligarchy being evil, since that is what we actually have an not democracy. The problem is the fact that the people being elected can cheat the system, and the fact that they will. If we were electing actual democrats, Aristocrats, or Middle Men, we...

No, we don't need a king. We need a classical dictator, a virtuous one who will cede power and retire to his farm when he is finished. And watch the sun set on a grateful country.

Not what I am looking for, but that would nicely enough. My own ideological beliefs preface me towards maximizing individual power and also the power of family units/communities. A system with a mixture of small to medium privately (or family owned or maybe even community owned) businesses...

Which is why the old form of Republics are better. You had virtue and you had liberty and when the two were wed you had some of the greatest societies in the world. As I always tend to think, we need a system that encourages everyone to work together and allows all interests to be heard. And all...