Indeed I am an inhabitant of Arthur’s Kingdom, though somewhat screwed by the acts of successive Mordreds.

But we are not that far behind those of you enjoying living in Bidenland. We have had Labour governments here eager to hand cartloads of postal votes to muslim communities who, as they have no need to read English (there were signs up in a well-known town called Rotherham where I once lived, in Arabic) and relied on the local imam to mark them for the voters. For some strange reason, the holy men completing the voting forms tended to prefer to enter a Labour candidate as all the voter’s choice, especially if he was muslim. Double-win there.

Now the UK is a smaller place than the States and getting to a voting booth often involves a very short walk for most voters, so it made no sense to have tons of postal votes unless, of course, the rulers knew that the absence of many thousands of postal votes might not get enough support for the preferred candidate.

Incidentally, we do not have multiple choices in our elections, so there isn’t much waiting to vote as it is one choice among a handful of people standing. Most people know exactly who they are going to vote for before they step into the voting booth, so it is done very swiftly.

For those who do take that short walk (i.e, those who aren’t reliant on the local imam to complete the votes) we are told when we get there to mark our vote in pencil. This can, of course, be erased and replaced at the count with a different ‘vote’ which causes many voters to take a sharpie to make a cross in their chosen box and overdraw it with the necessary pencil. In the event of any erasure, there’s a problem, though I suppose these can be tossed in the ‘spoilt ballots’ pile.

So yes, Gavin, we do have ‘democracy’ even without Dominion’s help.

That’s a big one there. Start with that one and make every single regulation voted on. Musk talked about this the other day how what seems to be a useful regulation when enacted later is not and they never go away.

That one rule change would do wonders.

From your pseudonym, you are probably in the UK. Sorry, lad, your native land is behind the times.

In BidenLand, it is not actually necessary to stand in line to vote, or even to mail in your vote. In fact, it is not even necessary to be alive to vote. Dominion Voting Systems will count the citizen’s (or illegal alien’s) uncast vote the right way (ie, the Biden way) without the need for any action on that person’s part.

It certainly simplifies the whole issue of “democracy”.

You would think therefore that they would not vote at all because all they will get is more and more laws. But vote we continue to do.

People don’t worship and relish the GDP as much as Caplan thinks they do. I certainly have no belief that Caplan’s eschaton rewards the GDP; it’s more an authoritarian dream with the rules enforcing his brand of libertarianism.

Some of us think that would be good — and sensible, and long overdue.

But have you observed the behavior of some of the Karens when they see someone without a mask? They are absolutely petrified! Afraid they are going to die a horrible death!!

Fauci’s Project Fear has created a lot of human misery and abject terror. Those of us who look at the science would probably be surprised at the resistance to lifting the regulations. Look at supposedly sensible Switzerland, where activists recently succeeded in getting a plebiscite on limiting Covid regulations. A substantial majority voted on keeping Covid regulations active.

If Caplan’s so smart, why isn’t he in charge?

Sorry, but I hate wish lists. Wish lists are for children to give to Santa Claus.

Full disclosure: I was once involved with a populist political campaign. The guy was a loser in more than one sense of the word. Not a clue how the world worked. Me, I walked away wiser. But he didn’t seem to learn anything at all from the failure.