it is "a" good idea! If not "the" idea --

As if he could ever be said to be outside the system. Surely all of us never elected to office at all, are more outside than he can be now? I guess it depends on what we mean by "system" -- to me it's our whole culture and community, not just government representatives and employees. As Nance knows, ruling class pretensions of grandeur are insignificant to my personal power of story these days.

That could be at the root of my difference with Mr. Wallner, and maybe mole, come to think of it. To me we're all interconnected and part of the governing and political systems whether we vote or not, whether we even register in the first place or read the major newspapers, much less go to party meetings and give money and meet candidates in person, etc. like their families and friends do.

(Nobody I know now does that, and few ever did. So are we ALL out of the system then, and it belongs only to the tiny fraction of active R and D party people currently holding office and giving money to those who do, or earning money from serving those who hope to?)

Similarly, private schooling and home education don't mean you are "out" of public educational systems, that you have no interest or claim or role or responsibility, that you are disenfranchised from our system, that you are a quitter hurting the public. Certainly not that you can stop paying your taxes!
So whose systems are they to change anyway? And how? Seems to me we're all here, even the non-citizens who CANNOT vote or run for office, and we all have an impact without needing the permission, much less the intercession of party priests and powerbrokers. . .