Broken, Flawed, Immensely Corrupt, Often Violent, Incredibly Divisive, and Increasingly Authoritarian

This essay is a concise way of understanding the Party Driven Problem.

Before we begin, it’s important to remember the 90–10 principle of problem-solving. Whether you’re dealing with individual suffering or systemic suffering, you only give 10% of your time, energy, and focus to understanding the problem. That 10% matters — you need to understand the basic mechanics of the problem — but then you put 90% into the solutions, the evolution, the future.

What follows is that 10%. The sad part. The hard part. The part nobody wants to talk about but everyone needs to understand. This is the system we are evolving beyond. This is the system that creates enormous suffering for millions of children and voters. And this is the system that the online political evolution of Voter Directed Democracy on Voter Directed Network will replace.

Here is the most concise sentence that captures it all — and I will say this thousands of times over the coming years:

The party-driven political system is broken, flawed, immensely corrupt, often violent, incredibly divisive, and increasingly authoritarian.

Let’s break each of those down.

1. Broken

A system is broken when it is not doing what it is designed — or capable — of doing.

Our Constitution gives us a democratic republic. That means representational government that represents voters. The republic is supposed to represent the demos. It is supposed to relentlessly source and implement the real Will of the People.

That is not happening.

There is a chasm — a canyon — between:

  • The public agenda (what government does), and

  • The real Will of the People (what voters want).

A healthy democratic republic lives in alignment with voters. Ours does not. That is what “broken” means.

2. Flawed

The party-driven system is not just broken in practice — it is flawed in design.

There are flaws in the implementation and flaws in the legal code itself.
Many of the worst dynamics of the party-driven system are written into law.

So much of what voters experience as “corruption” is, in fact, fully legal.
The law allows it. The structure incentivizes it. The system rewards it.

A flawed theory produces a flawed practice. All political decisions at all levels of government in any democratic republic should be made completely separate from the influence of any money, goods, or services. All political donations and lobbying are legal political corruption. Only the real Will of the People should matter.

3. Immensely Corrupt

The scale of corruption in the party-driven system is almost impossible to articulate.

It is immense — unimaginably immense.
It colors everything the federal government does.

Think of the ugliest, most repulsive color you can imagine.
That’s the color on every federal action for decades.

And even in the rare moments when voters pressure the federal government into doing something that sounds vaguely helpful, even those moments:

  • arrive too late,

  • are too weak,

  • and never come close to actually solving the problem.

Why?
Because the status quo benefits from the status quo.
The party-driven system benefits from the system exactly as it is — including the human suffering it creates.

You can’t get a real solution from a system that benefits from the problems.

4. Often Violent

Violence is not just physical.

Violence is also:

  • economic violence,

  • emotional violence,

  • social violence,

  • spiritual violence,

  • moral violence.

The party-driven system produces all of it. The party driven political system creates and perpetuates all of our social and economic systems and resulting problems.

When political decisions, political actions, and/or political inaction consistently harm children, families, and communities — preventably — that is violence. When people suffer because elected officials serve systems instead of voters, that is violence.

Violence is the predictable output of a corrupted, unaccountable political machine.

5. Incredibly Divisive

This is one of the most destructive features.

The party-driven system requires division to survive.
It thrives on hatred.
It monetizes outrage.
It rewards conflict.
It encourages voters to see each other as enemies.

It destroys social cohesion.
It destroys trust. It literally turns friend against friend, family member against family member, neighbor against neighbor, oppressed and disempowered voter against oppressed and disempowered voter.
And it destroys the possibility of unity.

A political system that depends on division cannot serve justly a democracy built on constitutional cooperation.

6. Increasingly Authoritarian

When you have two political parties with enormous power, enormous money, enormous access to systems, and enormous incentives to win at all costs, you inevitably drift toward authoritarianism. This is how democracy and democratic republics fail from the inside.

They consolidate power.
They reduce transparency.
They reduce accountability.
They centralize decision-making.
They remove voters from the process.

Democracy falling to authoritarian dynamics is not about dictators — it is about systems that remove the people from power. It’s about systems that deprive voters from the constitutionally granted political freedom and liberty.

That is the party-driven system.

To summarize….

The party-driven political system is:

  • Broken — It no longer represents voters as our Constitution intended.

  • Flawed — The legal structure itself creates dysfunction and malpractice.

  • Immensely corrupt — Corruption is legal, systemic, and colors every federal action.

  • Often violent — Policies produce preventable suffering for millions.

  • Incredibly divisive — The system survives by dividing voters against each other.

  • Increasingly authoritarian - Power concentrates upward, away from voters.

THE TRANSITION BACK TO HOPE

This is where the 90–10 principle matters.

We talk about the brokenness only so we can talk about the solution. In this cased the online Voter Directed Solution to the Party Driven Problem.

The future is a online, voter-directed democratic republics that are modern, transparent, collaborative, and cooperative.

The future is Voter Directed Network.

And the future is millions of voters determining the will of the people openly and transparently on every issue, transforming governance from the bottom up.

This is why we evolve.
This is why Voter Directed Democracy exists.
This is why Voter Directed Network is necessary.

Thank you for reading,

AVK