&gt; Once you believe those few things, it&#x27;s easy to understand why politicians aren&#x27;t evil, they&#x27;re just vested in their group<p>So you judge politicians based not on their actions but on their supposed intentions?<p>&gt; Maybe we could call it a constitutional republic?<p>Nice save. A constitutional republic is the true &quot;a better government, one tweak at a time&quot; since federalism is the laboratory of government.<p>No one even remembered that was the point of federalism here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10290172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10290172</a>