your model relies on everyone running their own nodes then? 

blacklisting would be done by major corporations and institutions. 

So if we live in a Distributist society, Lightning would work great 

Yea - it does. blacklisted by who? All my connections are other plebs - everyday users of the network, no enterprise nodes - except one which I milk for routing sats. 

My channels are with everyday users of the network who in aggregate are well-connected and I can reach anyone and so they can.

Jonathan_Adly

bitcoin

Decentralized money

clownworld

Do the primitives of Lightning even make sense for personal use cases?

Your node can be blacklisted, you have to open and close a channel if you want to make a single one-off payment, etc 