- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
sometimes when im drifting off into space or falling asleep i think what kind of structure might save democracy(tm) and vooting in the US.
1. only married couples and widows/widowers should be allowed to vote once each. divorcees do not get to vote. voting should either be ranked choice or something like in Germany where you actually get 5 votes per person and you can spend them all on one party or on several.
2. national parties should be banned and confederations should be formed between state-level parties with independent structures that can change confederation at any time.
3. the executive branch should be split into 7 divisions which are directed by 7 executives.
4. each executive is elected every 7 years, in a rotation, so that every year the longest serving executive is voted on.
5. the head of state is the Chief Executive who is the longest serving executive being replaced that year.
6. the Chief Executive is always the Minister of Defense during times of war.
7. state-level elections vote for parties which determine the composition of that state's delegates to the House of Representatives (i.e. a parliamentary system).
8. the states, per the original US constitution, must decide its two senators promptly through any mechanism of their choosing (including direct appointments, life long appointments, hereditary seats, seats that go up for auction, corporate appointments, party selection, first-past-the-post [like we have now], whatever the fuck). if they don't decide a senator quickly enough (which resulted in the constitutional amendment to replace it with elections) something bad happens, maybe they just kill the governor, who cares, figure something out that's more interesting than getting rid of it.
9. Executives are somehow elected or appointed? I haven't figured this out. I dislike first-past-the-post voting and I dislike elections within parliaments for executives. Neither seem to actually satisfy anyone.
my thought is that the current vooting system deprives people of actual choice, encourages "only think about federal elections, fuck your state" mentality, and empowers the two national parties beyond what is reasonable or functional. nobody is accountable to anything and fringe candidates that make a fun spectacle out of government are way too uncommon. the decorum of the federal government is gay and I want pants shitting autists elected by the Lynch Niggers Party of Alabama to throw gavels at people in DC.
1. only married couples and widows/widowers should be allowed to vote once each. divorcees do not get to vote. voting should either be ranked choice or something like in Germany where you actually get 5 votes per person and you can spend them all on one party or on several.
2. national parties should be banned and confederations should be formed between state-level parties with independent structures that can change confederation at any time.
3. the executive branch should be split into 7 divisions which are directed by 7 executives.
4. each executive is elected every 7 years, in a rotation, so that every year the longest serving executive is voted on.
5. the head of state is the Chief Executive who is the longest serving executive being replaced that year.
6. the Chief Executive is always the Minister of Defense during times of war.
7. state-level elections vote for parties which determine the composition of that state's delegates to the House of Representatives (i.e. a parliamentary system).
8. the states, per the original US constitution, must decide its two senators promptly through any mechanism of their choosing (including direct appointments, life long appointments, hereditary seats, seats that go up for auction, corporate appointments, party selection, first-past-the-post [like we have now], whatever the fuck). if they don't decide a senator quickly enough (which resulted in the constitutional amendment to replace it with elections) something bad happens, maybe they just kill the governor, who cares, figure something out that's more interesting than getting rid of it.
9. Executives are somehow elected or appointed? I haven't figured this out. I dislike first-past-the-post voting and I dislike elections within parliaments for executives. Neither seem to actually satisfy anyone.
my thought is that the current vooting system deprives people of actual choice, encourages "only think about federal elections, fuck your state" mentality, and empowers the two national parties beyond what is reasonable or functional. nobody is accountable to anything and fringe candidates that make a fun spectacle out of government are way too uncommon. the decorum of the federal government is gay and I want pants shitting autists elected by the Lynch Niggers Party of Alabama to throw gavels at people in DC.