It is impractical. And won’t there be chaos?
Free systems can look very chaotic and messy. But in reality, they are tremendously strong. Take an example – a system with a really wild number of people, say about 300 million. The leaders regularly get thrown out by their people; there are lots of sub-level leaders (who also get regularly thrown out); the leaders are forever arguing with each other in public; their people are forever criticizing them and making fun of them in public; things happen by consensus; the top job is seemingly won by a popularity contest, and so on. This is not just a hypothetical example. The name of this system is the United States – which also happens to be the world’s most powerful system. It may sound impractical to organize voting for hundreds of millions of people, yet it happens regularly. Freedom can look like madness to an outsider. It can look impractical. It can even seem impossibly optimistic. In fact, that’s why dictators and subjects who have never been exposed to freedom have such a hard tim
