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?

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.