Why I want to be elected

How did bureaucracy insert itself so deeply into all our lives, as a necessary inconvenience? Bureaucracy is not only hugely inefficient, it creates layers to dissolve accountability, so no one is directly responsible for anything. It fragments the chain of consequence. It doesn’t hide; it splits itself into harmless pieces. Bureaucracy does not ask, is this right. It asks was the form submitted correctly. This is critical. The morality of an action is replaced with legitimacy of its procedure.

My key skills and qualities

By outsourcing truth to process, it replaces integrity with permission. It outsources responsibility to the collective, while centralising power. And everyone is involved through taxes and representation votes. But no one is in control. Meanwhile power is concentrated in invisible boards, commissions, agencies, consultants, who are unelected, unreachable and insulated from consequences.

My top three key issues

You get the illusion of participation, while they get the infrastructure of dominion. It’s the perfect CON. It justifies itself by solving problems it created. Bureaucracy creates disaster, then expands its reach to manage that disaster. Then it funds the studies, writes the reports, then hires an organisation to monitor the damage. Then it raises your taxes to fund the next round.