I agree but my problem is even if Vance had his way and the cat ladies were ejected, give it 50 years and they’ll be back in charge.

Democracy is the vehicle that enables socialism. The European monarchs weren’t out there redistributing people’s wealth to others in the societies they ruled over, they extracted wealth for their own extravagance and war, but they had to have skin in the game in that system too for their heirs.

Anyone in Bitcoin knows it’s a lot easier to cut off one head (of a bad Monarch) than take on a hydra (democracy/oligarchy). Yet whenever I say something like this the statism will shine through from plenty of Bitcoiners who can only conceive of reforming this system with no understanding that it’s always going to revert to the same.