What a clown show, I wish we could start from scratch. To think I had a glimmer of hope with all the "non-partisan for the good of the country" talk last week.
How about term limits for MPs - you get two, maybe three shots at being in Parliament, then you're outta there. Includes the PM since he's just an MP, too. I have to think a whole bunch of neophytes could get more done than any of the current group of time-wasters. Actually, even better would be to go to NWT/Nunavut-style consensus gov't, and wipe away the party lines and ideologies. I'd much rather just have my candidate MPs tell me what THEY want to do instead of what their BOSS wants to do. Wouldn't work in a large population? Has anyone tried??
Term limits are good, but what a shame to lose people that do a good job.
You could also set up the problem of a mandarinate with term limits too.
As for NWT/NU, having worked there for two years and having studied their health and social policy experience for four, my own experience has been that it's all the same; people tend group around particular others and issues, and the same social roles are re-enacted.
Worse, in the NWT/NU, the tripartite political system that we have in the Dominion has as much influence, and likely more than anywhere else. So consensus or not, that consensus is still built upon conservatism, liberalism, and socialism, and I use all those terms lightly, with all their meanings, and as oversimplifications. :)
I don't know why, but I was thinking that the Greeks were so honest in certain regards, recognising social roles ipso facto, especially in action, and for the very reason that they represented something, an actual myth for how things were to be done.
The way they'd vote you out too was so honest, but brutal, expulsion. I'm told they'd literally do it using a jar and coins, and if you got enough coins in your jar, you were out.
That can stifle change though too.
Argh, I've been thinking about political systems lately, my goodness, I tend to feel that there's no way out of this grand mess.
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What a clown show, I wish we could start from scratch. To think I had a glimmer of hope with all the "non-partisan for the good of the country" talk last week.
just cancel voting when you don't think you'll like the outcome.
huh. I'd never thought of that.
good one Stephen.
Crazy all that warm and fuzzy last week, and then watch out I'm gonna bankrupt you the next.
Reform reform reform, you got busted biotch.
I have also never understood why people in lower economic strata vote conservative. It's like voting for your own oppressor.
I guess ideology trumps reason.
How about term limits for MPs - you get two, maybe three shots at being in Parliament, then you're outta there. Includes the PM since he's just an MP, too. I have to think a whole bunch of neophytes could get more done than any of the current group of time-wasters. Actually, even better would be to go to NWT/Nunavut-style consensus gov't, and wipe away the party lines and ideologies. I'd much rather just have my candidate MPs tell me what THEY want to do instead of what their BOSS wants to do. Wouldn't work in a large population? Has anyone tried??
Term limits are good, but what a shame to lose people that do a good job.
You could also set up the problem of a mandarinate with term limits too.
As for NWT/NU, having worked there for two years and having studied their health and social policy experience for four, my own experience has been that it's all the same; people tend group around particular others and issues, and the same social roles are re-enacted.
Worse, in the NWT/NU, the tripartite political system that we have in the Dominion has as much influence, and likely more than anywhere else. So consensus or not, that consensus is still built upon conservatism, liberalism, and socialism, and I use all those terms lightly, with all their meanings, and as oversimplifications. :)
I don't know why, but I was thinking that the Greeks were so honest in certain regards, recognising social roles ipso facto, especially in action, and for the very reason that they represented something, an actual myth for how things were to be done.
The way they'd vote you out too was so honest, but brutal, expulsion. I'm told they'd literally do it using a jar and coins, and if you got enough coins in your jar, you were out.
That can stifle change though too.
Argh, I've been thinking about political systems lately, my goodness, I tend to feel that there's no way out of this grand mess.
fuse the left
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