If we were to redo or add to the US constitution in a re-founding of the US I’d want to add 1. Separation of currency and state 2. Only citizens may donate to political causes and there’s an annual limit (no corporations, no NGOs) 3. Clarify that the right to bear arms includes all that goes into warfare (artillery, fighter jets, cargo planes, fuel, all the way down) 4. The buffet amendment: if deficits go over a certain percent of domestic production sitting congress people cannot be re-elected One of the greatest tricks played by the state over the last hundred or so years is scoping the second amendment to just guns and “personal defense” the real goal should be that there’s more privately held capacity for war than publicly held capacity for war.

Hard money is inevitable in a multi-polar world. Fiat is only sustainable in a unipolar world. When empires collapse the world reverts to hard money. When nations use hard money, there’s less war. Seems like the world would be better without a hegemon. Even though I think the US is exceptional, I think it’d be better if we focussed inward