Is Dave Volek sick?

Monday, October 13, 2025

Some weeks ago I stumbled into a website called “Dave Volek’s Tiered Democratic Governance”, which suggests a form of government without political parties. So I added a link to it on my own Continuous Cascaded Voting page.

Today I read another blog post by Dave, and again I liked the idea. He writes that the voter should vote for people who have a “good character”. Where he deliberately leaves it up to the voter to define “good”. But he basically suggests to judge your candidates by their character, not e.g. by their promises or their achievements.

Dave describes himself as the inventor of Tiered Democratic Governance, Pandemic Simulator or Spolu: A new business model where profits are not king.

And then I stumbled into an entry on medium.com last month, where Dave writes:

Sep 9, 2025

1959 was the year Dave Volek was born.

Dave is the inventor of a new democracy, the democracy so many of us yearn for.

Unfortunately Dave’s family had him committed to an insane asylum because he continued to write about a new democracy nobody wants to hear about.

For therapy, Dave’s warden gives him a half hour a week on Medium, then it is off to the padded cell for another 167.5 hours.

If you want a better democracy than we have now, repost this message all over your social media.

But you too may be locked up.

Now it would be interesting to talk with Dave and his family. I guess that Dave is a visionary, as my sister, as my defunct brother, as I. Why am I happy while they aren’t?

P.S.: I tried to write some advice to my sister: https://luc.saffre-rumma.net/blog/2025/1014.html