I like your ideas: eliminating police unions (I'm all in favor of it), qualified immunity (something new for me, but the way you explained it, it needs to go too), and most of all prohibition ALL prohibition (something I have been favoring since my teens).
Still, some deep feeling inside is suggesting me that all this doesn't matter any more. That we're way past all of this. That the next step will be chaos, and mayhem, and pointless violence, and brother against brother all over again. And in the end nobody will know who started it, but it's going to be an immense effort to stop it. And once the bloodshed is over, there will be a nation in ruins, and maybe seven people who will have grown richer than anything even conceivable today.
Sorry for my pessimism, especially since this is the first comment on your post. But I just spent three months in the US, and I feel for you as a country. The left and the right have both gone beyond insane, and none of them (or most of anyone) seem to notice. There is one hope though, and that is that I could be wrong. Let's hope that's the case.
I also fear you might be correct. The only bright side is that a lot of people are seeing that none of this is worth their time and many are looking for alternatives. This is very promising.
My prediction is that there is going to be a growing chasm between these people that will and are working on a better way and those that are grasping to Statism. I might be in an echo chamber that is warping my perspective, but I see it already.
It's true, I have met many good people, who like myself see themselves as far away from the dems as from the reps. (Kinda like me, who considers himself American, but not from the United States... though this takes us a bit away from the point at hand.) As many as there may be, though, it's still a marginal exception to the norm - or so it seems to me. So I really hope you are right, and they will in fact turn out to be a kind of silent majority, who will speak up at the decisive moment, so that cool heads can prevail.
As it turns out, the first article I saw a friend share on another social media site is this one: A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars. I'm kind of a history buff (as is the author), so I couldn't help reading and enjoying this, even though one scenario described is worse than the next one.
Oh, I don't think we are even close to a silent majority. We are however formidable. I don't mean we are going to go out and win civil wars. Not at all. I think we are capable of taking care of ourselves and each other and make other powerful converts. It is a revolution of diy and philosophy.
Personally, I think open source, permaculture, crypto and makers are going in the direction of peace, prosperity and robustness that can outcompete the religion of the State. We don't need to win over everyone, we just need to keep doing what we are already doing.
We are small in number, but we are growing in real power.
Awesome! I really like what you're saying. Let's make it happen!
Lol. Well, this platform is where I think that conversation will be taking place.