(Yesterday at 7:51 pm)Rizen Wrote:(Yesterday at 7:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But if you get rid of the electoral college, you’ll STILL have a democracy, which you’ve said doesn’t work.
I’m not asking how you would fix or modify democracy, but for you to name a form of government with which you would replace democracy.
If you meant to say ‘democracy doesn’t work as is’, why didn’t you?
Boru
My answer was solid gold; what do you want from me? Fine. I don't find this realistic but how about a series of councils of learned citizens elected by their peers? A council for agriculture, infrastructure, engineering, etc. They'd all be elected to each council by academics in their fields and the councils would control their specialized areas. Of course you'd have to have some sort of budgeting council perhaps elected from previous members of each of the main councils and one for diplomacy as well. There would have to be a judicial system of checks and balances where the councils could vote to impeach members of the governing councils. Yes it would be imperfect but wouldn't this be better than the circus of nepotism and popularity stunts that defines our current democracy? This is how an advanced society of aliens works in a book I've written.
Why suggest it if it’s unrealistic?
How would your councils deal with armed revolution? I ask because what you’re describing sounds like some sort of benevolent oligarchy. The trouble with those is that they never stay benevolent.
Boru
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