@dolus @moonman @histoire @extebert One man one vote works if universal suffrage isn't inherent to the system. I'm still fairly adamant about the Starship Troopers-style Heinleinian democratic republic system being the best option, even if it's impractical in the current political climate. Somehow "you have to spend 2-5 years of your life doing a brutally difficult job, whether military or civilian, in service of the state in order to earn voting rights" isn't politically correct.

To me it seems absolutely fucking ludicrous to let the average pleb have direct and indirect control over the sheer capacity for violence and suffering that a modern first-world state can provide, simply by virtue of birth or staying in the country long enough. One of the main kvetching points of the modern US left is letting Trump have the unilateral power to use thousands of nukes, without wondering about the system that let him have that power to begin with, and without acknowledging that they themselves are part of the system that allows him to have that power.