I note that Democracy really isn't democratic. Rather than considering an issue and deciding as citizens how to handle the issue, representative democracy avails us only of a choice between gatekeepers, who do the deciding for us.

I don't need a decider.

Steem is new technology, and as more people become informed as to how it works, actual Democracy will eventuate. That's what Steem does: allows us to voluntarily support, oppose, or ignore any given content, and this includes political issues.

I have long ago noted that Steem is practically an ideal mechanism for government, if only tweaked a bit to reckon the differences between transitory content and political decisions. All that needs to change for actual direct democratic voluntarist government is eliminating the seven day payout period, and replacing it with a permanent vote, which can be rescinded at will, at any time.

Say we're faced with a plebiscite to build a border wall. You like the idea a little, so upvote at 10%. Your stake generates a payout daily to fund building a wall. Later you change your mind, and decide the wall is much more important, so up your support and vote at 80%, and the amount of funds your vote generates increases 8 fold.

Suppose I also liked the idea a little and upvote the wall at 10%, but later change my mind and choose not to support the wall at all, and actually oppose it, so downvote it at 10%. Instead of contributing to building a wall, my vote will sap the funds available to construct the wall - until and unless I change my mind again.

This creates a fast and nimble direct control over funding any initiative that enables informed citizens to respond to new information and prevents coercion. No gatekeepers. No theft to force us to pay for things we don't want.

Even if extant governments try to stop this from happening, they can't. The world has changed because of Steem, and we're all more free as a result.

Don't look back at a supposed golden age. The real golden age is coming.

Thanks!