Be happy with the bipartite logic, americans. Here in Belgium , we have two electoral zones, each one with roughly 4 big parties. Which means that any government is an alliance between usually at least 4 parties. Given that the differences in votes between parties are not enormous, the elections and the votes don't mean much. The governments are formed through inter-party deliberations (that can take very long, hence why we have the world record of the longest time without an actual government) and due to the abundancy of parties, even the clear winner of the elections can be cast aside of the government. The most recent event is that the NVA, winner of the elections in Flanders, isn't part of the government. I'm personally happy with this particular event but that's not very healthy. It makes the whole process seem like based on a compromise (with all the electoral logic you can think of but that's fine) between parties rather than the vote itself.
Fuck democracy. There's all the people that have the required intelligence, maturity and information to vote, and there's all the people that do not. PR, demagogy, fantasy platforms and bullshit speeches wouldn't work in the first place if the people that fall for it didn't vote. The election systems of many countries also need a lot of tinkering. Both on the law aspect and in the mentality/traditions (negative campaigns, ad hominem...).
I'll be the first Internet Activist For Stochocracy. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarchy)
That's right. No vote, no elections (no wasted billions). Just a few guard laws to avoid choosing someone not fit for the job, and then bam. Each state function gets a randomly chosen manager/minister (whatever). You are sure never to be chosen again, and you can't do anything about it. Personal interest conflicts can be avoided by evaluating the value and then integrating the whole property of the person into the state property, then giving the same value back (in money) when the person's mandate is over. Of course this is all too simple. What if the person is just doing nothing/going rambo, etc. Well there are ways to counter that (like a specific role that could fire others, but could only do it once and then be dismissed...), and I let anyone interested devising a working stochocratic system for themselves
Ofc. I'm only half-serious about this
http://www.ronpaul.com/who-is-ron-paul/
One question. Is there a way to deactivate the music and sounds effects in the videos ? That's exactly the kind of things I hate about PR. I just want to hear what they say, not the american ad music -_-
