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Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. The problem with our form of democracy is that once voted in, the winner is given power. Instead, power should be
by hguhghuff 8y ago
Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority.
The problem with our form of democracy is that once voted in, the winner is given power.
Instead, power should be expendable.
Votes that a party wins should be able to be used to either to push through legislation or to defeat legislation, and once those votes are used, they’re gone. This would lead politicians to be much more careful about how they expend their power, spending votes in what they really want, and spending votes to stop what they really disagree with.
Closely related concept is that it should not be “one person, one vote”. Instead, everyone should get 100 or 1000 votes to distribute across the politicians/parties that represent their many interests and values.
- jcims 8y agoHow would they reup and why would we punish the representatives that participate in more decisions vs less?
- hguhghuff 8y agoPunish? I dint understand. Politicians get votes to spend, either on backing or opposing legislation.
- Sammi 8y agoOnly if you assume a voting system like First Past The Post where the winner indeed takes all. May countries have voting systems where candidates and parties take proportional seats in parliament according to their votes. This means there is a need for coalitions and consensus seeking across in order to get anything voted through parliament.
- Joakal 8y agoThis already happens in most countries. No one votes for a lone representative's crazy proposal. I notice something, with your proposal one person can keep proposing 100 to 1000 votes to make all taxes go to them, effectively killing the government.
- hguhghuff 8y agoActually it should definitely be the case that a line crazy proposal can be put up by an independent politician, who backs it with the votes they won. If other politicians oppose it, then they can spend their votes/power on defeating it. But of course if they spend all their votes on defeating things then they get nothing done. So so small initiatives would be able to get through, that currently cannot because there is currently no cost to politician opposing things. Expendable power is the idea, not unlimited power, which is what we have now.
- Joakal 8y agoWell, having trillions of dollars go to one person instead of defeating a bill because a politician wants to cling to power. That's.. unrealistic. In fact, if I offer 1 billion dollars to each politician that votes for my bill of 1 trillion dollars for me? Well, I get 1 trillion dollars, and politicians get a cut. I keep at least 600 billion dollars. Still overall a loss for democracy. I think culture is the issue. Independence of judiciary and anti-corruption investigations will lead to a golden democracy. Few countries can accomplish this.