Our democracy is outdated

A radical transformation of democracy

How are we still trapped with electing officials to do as they please in power, based solely on their promises. Electing someone with strong vision and accustomed to getting their way is terrible for democracy. It singles voters out to cherry picking the policies they care for in a candidate and ignoring the rest. Or choosing the lesser of both evlis. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

There is a better way. What if the job of an elected leader were to follow the public, by conducting polls and even having them vote on important issues.

For this to work, this person is needs to have a general disregard towards policy and absolutely no vision. They would have to forget every notion of right and wrong and simply follow the majority of their country. A true, radical representation of democracy.

All the policies, whether foreign or domestic, globe spanning or hyper local, should be left to the majority. For local problems, let locals vote on it. For global, let the whole country.

But how do we combine this with free and fair elections?

Obviously not all branches of government can function like this. Many things are held from the public,

We need a stronger accountability of power. In our current system, once a politician is elected, they can do damn well whatever they please, only loosely accountable to the law (a fact recent years have proven all too true, just look at Big Orange).

Actually keeping politicians accountable for their campaigning promises is an idea that makes obvious sense. People elected them in that position based on their policies, therefore they should actually be accountable for their actions once they take office. Not just afterwards, but during. An annual review of fulfilled expectations would help. A time to analyze the politicians campaigning promises with their elected reality.

The biggest downside to this (other than it being absolutely rejected by every current politician) is that it is rare for a voter to support every policy decision a candidate has. Which brings me to.

Just imagine, you’d show up to the ballot box once or twice a year (one time for the Federal Government, one time for The Local Government) and vote on individual policies you’d want to be implemented the next year.

Instead of a politics of personality, we could truly vote to our hearts content. The way a policy would win and which policies make it on the ballot would be tricky.

My proposition is this. We’re not gonna stop voting for personality, so we can fix the personalities. After winning, the candidate should put all their policy decisions on the ballot, and let the people decide. In this way, a majority for any policy would guarantee it’s execution.

But every innovation has its trade-offs. Ans voting has plenty. For starters, people are unreliable. We cant even be trusted to vote for our best option, let alone the greater good. Even selfishness isn’t our greatest vice, but sheer lack of interest or care for consequences are. Trolling for the hell of it will be our downfall.

Miss-information and foreign actors will be able to conduct far more damage than they currently have been able to..

Since nothing is perfect, we might as well try something different.

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