Change governance with technology

So I have had a love/hate relationship with the 7th US President Andrew Jackson for sometime now. I know what you're going to say; "it's probably just a passing infatuation or something".... but I really cannot shake this love/hate thing here.

It all started many years ago with hate. Andrew Jackson was a horrible person when it came down to people - well mostly with non-white people. He was truly viscous with native Americans and I grew up with empathy towards them on the high plains near Cheyenne.

On the other side understood the major overwhelming influences of the time. This all centers around centralized banking and their external forces trying to destroy true freedom for all. He famously went after the centralized banks, he fought feverishly against their centralized powers. 

Like the First Bank of the USA, the Second Bank was the victim of a distrust of centralized power. More important, both banks became entangled in politics and failed to find the balance and independence necessary to serve the vast and diverse country. Jackson's victory over the banks was short lived however with a private central bank called the "Federal Reserve" charging in to do it all over once again.

I'm now getting more clarity on all this after reading the upon recent trials and tribulations of the o' so cute first world problems going on in Arcata, California. So the city council is in an uproar about a statue of President McKinley. I've glanced at the rewritten history books and cannot find the good in the bad of McKinley - there must be something good he did! A little help here....anybody?

Along with his position on other native "Americans", McKinley was certainly horrible his illegal annexation of the United Kingdom of Hawai'i. Relations between the two countries included several treaties, exchanges of trade and diplomatic representatives from 1820 to 1893. Can you believe that he annexed a county that his country had signed agreements with? To this day, even the United Nations cannot allow this abomination to pass.

So to solve this problem and go forward, the City of Arcata is planning to spend $60,000 to just take down a statue of this president. No, sorry, not good enough. I think that we need to demand a little better from our paid public servants. Their plan is to just paying a silly price to contractors to take down a statue - nothing more.

Under the Clinton administration there was a formal apology made for the illegal theft from the Kingdom of Hawai'i- 100 years too late. Again no real effort to make things right, just an apology, nothing else. The apology was made by the politician Madeline Albright. She also once said famously; “there's a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other” - so do you think she was referring to herself helping to restore power back to the late Queen Lili?uokalani? " Oops sorry for stealing your country!"

Now we have tools like distributed ledger technology that can eliminate the need for the majority of useless politicians that are just middle men who take from the equation - rarely ever adding value. Like all middle men, they play the legacy gate-keeper role and retain most of the control and power. This is certainly the case with the state (federal) level - of large countries.

Hate dwells on the past and focuses on the differences while love embraces our similarities and focuses on the present with a benefit - and not just a slim minority of a select few. Creating hatreds is a time tested tactic of centralized powers who wish to divide people in order to conquer them using any hate-based tactic ... race, gender, class, even political and sexual preferences.

Time to decentralize and distribute. There are more and more distributed ledger governance solutions coming to market like Aragon, Kleros, Wings and Harbor. Now we can all start work together and be a part of the solution. What other great solutions are being built????