Oddbean new post about login | logout So, it's basically like the Mafia behaviour, they create threats, then take away your money and rights to 'protect' you from those threats.
Yes; Vote for your favorite Mafia every 4 years. Though, the traditional mafia didn't have ambitions to indoctrinate your children and tell you what to think, as long as you paid your protection fee. Protection-against-the-mafia fee.