5.8 NDP implies no political government
Since the state cannot be discriminate whereas the people can, discretionary decisions necessarily fall on the people, not the state. So the NDP is a sledgehammer for reducing the power of the collective in favour of power of the individual.
A startling implication of the NDP is that it leaves no room for government in the ordinary political sense: politicians, parties, platforms, budgets, and discretionary rule by representatives. State representatives cannot choose among citizens’ competing priorities without privileging some over others. Choosing how tax is spent is therefore discriminatory allocation. Since political government consists largely of discretionary choices made on behalf of the public, the NDP eliminates political discretion and leaves only rule-bound mechanisms acting under the Constitution.
Once the state cannot discriminate:
- it cannot have policy platforms
- it cannot have targeted budgets
- it cannot have ideological agendas
- it cannot have political parties
- it cannot have representatives making discretionary decisions
because all of those activities involve choosing winners and losers. The NDP makes political discretion impossible.
What remains is a neutral administrative layer, universal mechanisms, enforcement of NAP + NDP, and a self‑allocating public service marketplace.
A politician or party deciding:
- how much money goes to healthcare vs defence
- which industries get subsidies
- which regions get infrastructure
- which groups get tax breaks
- which behaviours get penalties
is always discriminating between people, because different people value different services, industries, regions, and priorities. Even if the intention is noble, the effect is discriminatory. So under the NDP: no representative may make decisions that differentially affect people.
That wipes out:
- political parties
- policy platforms
- budget negotiations
- targeted legislation
- pork‑barrel spending
- ideological agendas
- central planning
- discretionary allocation
What decisions can a non‑discriminatory state make?
Surprisingly few, and they are all mechanical, not political. A non‑discriminatory state can only do things that apply identically to all humans, do not create categories, do not allocate resources differently and do not impose differential burdens.
This leaves only:
- maintaining the universal tax mechanism
- maintaining the universal registration mechanism
- maintaining the universal daily cycle
- maintaining the universal dashboards
- enforcing non‑coercion (NAP)
- enforcing non‑discrimination (NDP)
- maintaining shared infrastructure that is funded voluntarily through tax choice
- maintaining the identity system (so people can register and allocate)
These are administrative, not political.
They don’t require:
- parties
- elections
- manifestos
- ideological debates
- coalitions
- policy platforms
They require:
- engineers
- auditors
- administrators
- mathematicians
- system maintainers
Not politicians.