Most people affected by The Great US Empire can’t even vote because they aren’t citizen of the empire. They just get to hear the bombs falling or see the news about why everything gets expensive due to carrier group politics.
So yeah: Those who can vote probably should. It will probably not help much. But maybe it does help a bit to stabilize world trade a bit when the “democrat” imperialists instead of the republican imperialists win the next election.
Most people with the right hacker mindset and skills aren’t billionaires. Those bots are a pretty beefy force multiplier when they suddenly obey someone else.
That’s just what total democracy looks like. Completely normal. In Germany, some political parties (left and right) are also banned to make sure they can’t ever be elected.
It’s like Brexit with the exception, that most citizen of the core country of The Great US Empire don’t really profit from the absurd benefits that come with being the defacto ruler of the world. They never got full state healthcare anyway. They never got a real social security net. All the profits were hoovered up by the military industrial complex and the Epstein billionaire club anyway. For the majority of the people, losing the world leader status might actually be a neutral change. They can’t lose what they never had.
Just continue coding using the natural neural networks in the brains of those 60 employees until the problem has been resolved and/or another AI provider selected. It’s not like Claude invented coding. Sure, it’s a pretty useful tool. But it is possible to research obscure APIs and develop software manually.
The real problem is that most politicians were once kids themselves and learned to hate teachers in general. It’s not all teachers. But kids are easy to influence. The bad teachers ruin it for everyone.