“If you’re so competent, why aren’t you running things?”

It must be because you just don’t want it. Yeah, that’s it.

According to William Patterson’s biography of RAH, Heinlein did the editing of the originally published Stranger in a Strange Land himself. RAH cut the 220,000 words down to 160,083 by mid-January, 1961. Putnam had agreed to publish The Man from Mars if Heinlein could do a 150,000-word cut, but relented and allowed the 10,000+ extra words. The title, Stranger in a Strange Land, was agreed upon with Putnam in a March 22nd telephone call.

We haven’t elected our government in decades; all that happened was it’s now in the open.

The President can’t fire people, and no one from SES can get fired. See Humphrey’s Executors, the legally Independent from the Executive/President status of the Federal Reserve, CIA, NLRB, FCC, SES, and others. Basically most of the 20th century additions to government can’t be fired, and are collectively their own boss. The above list is our Finances and currency and banking, the Intelligence organs, Labor, Communications and the SES is of course Senior Executive Service, see Fauci.

The entire government Fronde against Trump was he thought he was President of the United States ala Article II, that’s been a dead letter since FDR. This is the LAW Gavin.

The Laws and indeed our working Constitution are indeed the Federal Register. They have the power of judicial and constructive notice since 1935 SCOTUS decision.

We don’t elect our government Gavin, we elect Politicians who pretend to be our government.

Now lets understand those politicians COULD be dangerous should they decide to try and regain Constitutional government, but they’ve just fixed that but good in DC.

We didn’t fail democracy Gavin, the voters in the 1930s did, as did their politicians. All that has changed is they’re exposed.

The possible potential good news is America does not have Unitary government, America is a Federation. That leaves potential openings for the States and indeed the Citizens: who will fail and fail with no doubt or deceit to blame that they are cowards, that we are cowards. It’s quite blatant.

And democracy is the one government that CAN’T fail the people, by definition the people fail democracy.

So here’s our big chance, whether we like it or not.

A mathematician would certainly point out that an equation has to balance. No-one can run a Balance of Trade deficit for ever. A scientist would note that nuclear power is more carbon-neutral than windmills or solar panels and much more efficient in terms of use of land and materials.

The problem we have is not with scientists or mathematicians; it is with our incompetent deluded Political Class. Clearly democracy has failed when “We the People” elect such worthless specimens as our representatives. Did democracy fail us? Or did we fail democracy?

We can of course mention that we used to be a Republic, until this year anyway. Debatable I suppose.

What we can’t debate is we have the rule of wizards and mathematicians now, in fact since FDR, and that they’ve mathed away and scienced away democracy. Also any actual heroes, they have no tolerance for such. The regime’s hero is Karen.

Can we say that we’re better off in 2021 for having done in democracy, now that we see the mathematicians in all their glory?

Guessing David Cameron didn’t read Glory Road before he promised the Brexit referendum.