@First-light it's quite clear that democracy needs to be refined in order for it to be saved. the current system will always result in bankrupcy - for this simple reason - we have more voters that take from taxes than we do that contribute. so it is a logical inevitablility that governments will always simply punish the tax payers and reward the tax consumers.

the solution is simple: you dispense with the 'one man one vote' form of democracy and replace it with '$1k contribution, one vote'.

this would be very simple: if you paid $20k in taxes NET per year, you get 20 votes.

The NET things is very important - each citizen would have a social contribution a/c - which shows you how much you have paid in (taxes) and how much you have taken out (pension, student grant, benefits, state pension etc). this would empower the payers, and disempower the recievers.

It is likely then that in your lifetime, you would gain and lose the right to vote. for example, as a student, you would not be allowed to vote. when you start working and paying taxes, you would get the vote...and the more tax you paid, the more votes you would get. then, when you retired, your votes would be less. eventually you would lose the vote, as your state pension drawdowns would be greater than your contrinutions.

this is how you save democracy. it would exclude bums, blue haired single mums, old wasters, immigrants, etc etc.

The people that don;t contribute to the public coffers should have no vote. the more you contribute, the more votes you should get.

that is how you save society and democracy.

@woodsmoke one of the biggest mistakes the UK made was this nonsense of regional parliaments in the 1990s. The Scottish and (less so) the Welsh are not countries, but their fake 'parliaments' gave them the confidence they needed to cos play as nations.

They are not nations. They have no currency and no army. A place without a currency and without an army is not a country. their fake and gay 'parliaments' are not actual parliaments, because they are not sovereign -not in theory, and not in practice.

I have seen what has happened to countries that willingly throw away their sovereignty (all of countries in the EU). what happens is that they turn into beggars. They sole purpose of the elected is to be beggars. and people that beg for money, and then get it, do not spend wisely.

This is at the heart of the issue with the former countries that now make up the EU - they are all just beggars. they just want hand outs so that they can sit around spending money on vanity projects that are basically just pointless virtue signaling - like net zero.

When Germany signed away its sovereignty to the EU, they were basically just admitting that they hated themselves. self loathing is the root cause of decline.