A review: Mencius UR

I read Mencius UR sometimes. He is insightful and interesting because he says things no one else says and makes compelling arguments from them. He describes himself as a Jacobite (Carlist) and spends a lot of time pointing out the failures of democracy. Mainly he highlights political power feedbacks known as machines (modern forms). I would summarize his argument against democracy as saying that its basic proposition that government must be by the consent of the governed means that the business of government then becomes to manufacture that consent (or reward those who do). He shows that most agencies, the press and educators work together to control and mold public opinion to a ‘progressive’ agenda and that is the reason that both parties consistently move left over time. He spends a lot of time focusing on how the resulting governance has a lot of crime, and wastes peoples lives in meaningless bureacratic quagmire. He compares modern governance to government in the gilded age to highlight effective goverment (At least as far as crime).
To remedy this situation he advocates as the ultimate solution (there are a lot of compromise solutions he talks about) the division into city states ruled as corporations with executives having ultimate power to combat crime and manage things efficiently without the necessity to feed a political machine. Human rights are to be secured and agreed upon by the complete freedom of people to move to any city state that will have them if they are unhappy with their current locale/freedoms.

The irony is that Mencius is the ultimate progressive. He wants a more ‘scientific’ government. His system is very internationalist and globalized.
He sees corporations as having the most rational governance so it becomes the model for his utopia. Moving, while attractive to a progressive is not really a good solution to a Tory who feels attachment to his native land, his town history, his roots etc. That as a guarantee of rights seems loathsome to a true Tory.
Unlike most progressives he realizes the goals of progressivism are ultimately hindered by democracy, and the two are not naturally symbiotic.