Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. He was not a proponent of representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. In 1931, the Arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for Mencken's soul after he had called the state the "apex of moronia".
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some
great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their
heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a
downright moron.”
~ H.L. Mencken
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I can't be sure but I know for sure that at least a score of people have taken it seriously. Since people don't understand the system without reading the book, because it isn't something that I can explain in a short paragraph, it's just too "outside the box" for a normal person to understand it from just the half page definition.
Fortunately, the system provides major benefits for the rich and powerful as well as everyone else. (The rich and powerful have problems, too.) So once they understand the idea, they are likely to go for it. (It eliminates all taxes of every kind and all government regulation of business, it eliminates inflation, it eliminates other people stealing your money, among other things.)
First off, you can easily understand my system. It is far simpler than economics. Our present form of money greatly complicates things. The difficulty has to do with how the human brain/mind works.
For example, money is a huge part of our culture. There are many words that have an understanding of our money and how it works as a necessary background.
"Rent" for example has a meaning that you are very familiar with. So if I use the word "rent" in a description of how one gets a place to live in my system, your brain/mind will automatically understand that term as you currently understand it and will assume (without warning you) that our current form of money is being used. Yet in my system, the money is totally different. So you would think you understood what I was saying when your mind was leading you astray. So when I describe what it's like in my system, what I tell you is literally true. You understand each sentence, sort of. But as soon as you move on a sentence or two or go to the next paragraph, that old version of money is substituted and you mind loses the meaning of that sentence back there.
I have trouble explaining how this works but I have seen it happen over and over. In my system prices of the things people buy don't change so from the buyer's point of view there can be no inflation or deflation. The reason they don't change and no one cares is that when money is earned it comes to exist in the account of the person who earned it. When money is spent, it ceases to exist. So since the money does not go to the seller, the seller doesn't care about the price. Since the buyer knows that the price is as low as it can be for the cost (not the money cost, the "resources" cost in materials, labor, energy, etc. of production) of its production.
Now that's pretty simple but I'll bet you find it hard to understand. All sorts of things about that description probably don't make sense to you. :-)