American primaries and elections are noisy, but the government immediately has a majority. In systems with lots of parties, the noise and chaos starts after the election, when voters have no more influence over what happens. The resulting government can be the opposite of what the majority of voters intended, or have different people in it, than were on the ballot.

American voters determine the result, directly, down to the individual politicians in each seat.

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I cannot speak to what you reference because I don’t know what happened. But I personally come from a place that doesn’t compare to the US, and I know I had a choice, and I left. It was hard, I didn’t want to, but I did it anyway. And I didn’t wait for anyone to make the world around me better. Those who stayed, they’re not in a good place even though they keep voting harder. They haven’t figured out that politicians are irrelevant when it comes to improving ones place in the world

I don’t believe to be above or below politicians. I would describe my relationship with them as distant. I just realized they are irrelevant if you make the right choices. I live my life in a way that serves me, and I don’t wait for another human to improve my life. Whenever I wanted change or didn’t agree with something, I simply left and moved somewhere better. I’ve lived in many countries; each time I moved, my life improved significantly. Leaving really is the ultimate voting hack. The beauty of the world is that you don’t need politicians to change things for you; there are always places where the changes you seek already took place. You do, however, have to be comfortable with change, and most people aren’t. In my case, I do pay some taxes, and I happily do so because they aren’t illogically high. Those who pay half their income in taxes should probably evaluate their situation. I would understand why voting then becomes so critical to their lives.

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Yes, auth seems to be the most straight forward solution indeed.

But as the mint custodian I'd like to be as blind as possible to who is spending what, when.

Openness makes it not just readable to them, but to everyone.

If they can show the public that the checksum matches, and the code shows equality, then everyone's happy.

If they keep it to themselves then they'll probably just cause too much suspicion. Why do it that way when they could fully open it up and remove that suspicion?

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cool! Is the auth private, or do I need to sign something with a whitelisted npub?