Fred-Rik

Sometimes, I don't think you have read my book.

Western democracy has corralled the more ambitious citizens into behaving a more productive way. Rather than duels with swords and pistols, combatants use speech and votes. A definite improvement indeed. Democracy took away brute strength from those in governance. Human nature seems to have progressed with western democracy.

The TDG has to take that one step further. It has to rid itself of the human nature of power accumulation and control. If it can't do that, then all the predictions you have just made will indeed come true. The TDG will fail before it even gets to the "big" levels.

The TDG is more than an electoral system. It is a totally different way of doing politics/governance. There are quite a few guardrails that need to be built. I will just give you two:

1) Voters need to be trained to cast their vote based on good character and capacity for governance. They should know someone in their neighborhood who has these attributes. If 75% of TDG reps are elected on this criteria, there's a good chance the TDG will work out.

2) Elections are annual. If a representative starts behaving too "egotistically," the voters will starting seeing signs of this. If they are properly trained, that toxic representative will be turfed out shortly.

There's a few more guardrails that need to be built. It will be be up to the early TDG builders to put this new culture together. If they won't--or can't--or fail at it, then your predictions will indeed come true.

Everything is in my book.

I have great faith in human nature. Many of us have--directly or indirectly--already overcome many animalistic instincts. We just need to extend that further.