Yea, and then those kinds of organizations become corrupted themselves because money and power are extremely alluring.

Look at the Autodefensas in Colombia and Michoacán, or the origins of the Taliban in Kandahar's opium belt (Maiwand) in the early 1990s.

Militas are not hallmarks of direct democracy - they are hallmarks of societal and political collapse.

I'd an already corrupt environment for any other "maybe corrupt in 10 years" any day.

I'd change* ...