I am glad to hear we agree on so much. I hope to crypto you add all the other decentralization drivers, because none of them will have any ability to decentralize power without the others. Crypto hasn't decentralized anything, because it is funneled into exchanges and fiat is spent on the ground. This makes it just another aspect of the centralized monetary system, like Euros or Baht and Dollars.

You're not wrong that Trump pointed to the unsavory disinformation of the enemedia. However, this was not particularly new information. Prior to 2016 IIRC trust in media was plummeting, and trust for Congress was below 10%. We still have both, and Trump's power still derives from both. The apparent opposition to disinformation is a very obvious tactic used by the enemedia to blanket us with coverage of Trump, and attract to his banner folks like me that detest disinformation, as I was prior to the election.

It wasn't until I saw his cabinet that I grasped the ugly truth: Trump was just another politician, and I'd fallen for it again.

I don't think we'll ever gain control of our masters through voting for which of them takes office. If voting was able to impose control over government, it would be illegal. Only by effecting our sovereign authority directly and decentralizing our production of goods and services will we break parasitization and centralization of our wealth and power by industrial sources of goods and services.

It is voting with our feet, not at the ballot box, that actually effects freedom, and it is by reducing the power and wealth of particular jurisdictions it does so. Making our own bespoke household items does exactly that.