I’m too stupid to run.

warn the chinese to not let them vote, before it’s too late for them too.

Frankly the shortest path would be to rapidly militarize space, by say informing the United States Military 25% of their budgets will be directed UP, or they cease to be relevant.

Global Hegemony = Global Slumlord, with the IMF extracting rack rents from our more hapless “allies”…such as Ukraine. Oh yes, we did pushed it in GOOD in 94.

And the selection in America anyway should be by local boards staffed by the last 3 professions.

Should there be strife the Victor choses the electors.

Frankly the only possible disinterested political office conceivable is VOTER, and it’s time we started treating it as such, or abandon democracy.

On the disenfranchisement of ruin voters, you’re right; it isn’t happening, and isn’t likely to happen. As I’ve commented on other reactionary blogs, there has never been a successful narrowing of the franchise without eliminating voting altogether; the one time a country attempted to shift from universal male suffrage back to property requirements, the result was Emperor Napoleon III.

“The ratchet isn’t reality-based. We already have plenty of examples of failed societies through embracing leftist principles.”

Indeed. The scenario is “France burns down into Afghanistan” and then everyone goes, not “oh sh*t”, but “more liberalism needed”; Germany goes down to, nobody goes “oh sh*t”; Britain goes down, nobody goes “oh sh*t”, and so on, until the world burns down.