ericksolvi
27th September 2011, 06:12
It's been brought to my attention that many of you totally reject the notion of any one person leading another. This however is my model for a hybrid system, that would still have government authority but alter the selection of said authority in such a way that it would hopefully be more acceptable to you. This is a party free system, no democrats no republicans, no organisational loyalties outside of their office for the prospective politician at all. The anarchist model for industry could exist side by side with my government model.
First of all I think it's ridiculous that your dental hygienist has to have a specific degree in order to do his/her job, but that politicians can have a degree in anything, or even nothing at all. Therefor I would require that anyone running for full time elected office have a degree called a Bachelors of Applied American Government. The courses would consist primarily of law, history, ethics, political science, economics, accounting, but also sociology and psychology, this would all take place over four years. It would be a very hard degree program. After all the class work the prospective politician would have to intern for two years in an entry level bureaucratic job, (Department of licensing, Health and Human Services, any department really) in order to finally have the degree.
Now George W was a failed businessman who's family bought him the governorship of Texas, and then he ran for president. Not acceptable in my eye's. I think that after getting the Bachelors of Applied American Government, the new politicians should only be allowed to run for an entry level elected office, let's say a State Senator seat. They would then have to complete at least one full term of office before being allowed to seek higher office. Even if they decided to stay at the same level they would need to pass the review described below.
Before they could throw their hat in the ring for a higher position they would need to be approved by a Peoples Review Comity. The committee would be something like a jury, only larger 100 citizens selected by lottery. They would vote after hearing proceedings similar to a trial. The politician record would be examined. Two debaters would be randomly selected from a pool of qualified individuals (probably composed of people in the academic field who enjoy debate) they would research the politician in advance. One debater would present an argument for the politician, the other against. The Peoples Review Committee would then be allowed to question the politician. A deliberation would follow, then a vote. Whole thing should take about three days.
Every time a politician wanted to move up the latter they would have to complete their current term of office, be reviewed, go through a run off when more then lets say four of them earned the right to run for the same office, and then win a general election. Any politician that fails a review would be simply banned from politics, they have the qualifications to go and work in a bureaucratic capacity. The progression for a politicians career path would look something like this would look something like this.
Tier 1. State Senator, full time City Council positions, Mayor, County Commissioners.
Tier 2. Governors, federal Representative.
Tier 3. US Senator.
Tier 4. President of the United States.
This may be closer to your ideals then you think. For someone to get to the position of President they would have gone through at least 3 reviews, by citizens that are made to sit down and fully consider the person in question. Win four elections. Probably more since their would need to be run offs in cases where more than four individuals were running for one seat. And without parties around always pushing to distinguish themselves from one another politicians would be able to focus on doing their jobs.
It's my hope that a person who rose to power in this fashion would be an extremely good politician.
I know that there are large missing details, but I think something along these lines would be far better than what we currently have in the US.
First of all I think it's ridiculous that your dental hygienist has to have a specific degree in order to do his/her job, but that politicians can have a degree in anything, or even nothing at all. Therefor I would require that anyone running for full time elected office have a degree called a Bachelors of Applied American Government. The courses would consist primarily of law, history, ethics, political science, economics, accounting, but also sociology and psychology, this would all take place over four years. It would be a very hard degree program. After all the class work the prospective politician would have to intern for two years in an entry level bureaucratic job, (Department of licensing, Health and Human Services, any department really) in order to finally have the degree.
Now George W was a failed businessman who's family bought him the governorship of Texas, and then he ran for president. Not acceptable in my eye's. I think that after getting the Bachelors of Applied American Government, the new politicians should only be allowed to run for an entry level elected office, let's say a State Senator seat. They would then have to complete at least one full term of office before being allowed to seek higher office. Even if they decided to stay at the same level they would need to pass the review described below.
Before they could throw their hat in the ring for a higher position they would need to be approved by a Peoples Review Comity. The committee would be something like a jury, only larger 100 citizens selected by lottery. They would vote after hearing proceedings similar to a trial. The politician record would be examined. Two debaters would be randomly selected from a pool of qualified individuals (probably composed of people in the academic field who enjoy debate) they would research the politician in advance. One debater would present an argument for the politician, the other against. The Peoples Review Committee would then be allowed to question the politician. A deliberation would follow, then a vote. Whole thing should take about three days.
Every time a politician wanted to move up the latter they would have to complete their current term of office, be reviewed, go through a run off when more then lets say four of them earned the right to run for the same office, and then win a general election. Any politician that fails a review would be simply banned from politics, they have the qualifications to go and work in a bureaucratic capacity. The progression for a politicians career path would look something like this would look something like this.
Tier 1. State Senator, full time City Council positions, Mayor, County Commissioners.
Tier 2. Governors, federal Representative.
Tier 3. US Senator.
Tier 4. President of the United States.
This may be closer to your ideals then you think. For someone to get to the position of President they would have gone through at least 3 reviews, by citizens that are made to sit down and fully consider the person in question. Win four elections. Probably more since their would need to be run offs in cases where more than four individuals were running for one seat. And without parties around always pushing to distinguish themselves from one another politicians would be able to focus on doing their jobs.
It's my hope that a person who rose to power in this fashion would be an extremely good politician.
I know that there are large missing details, but I think something along these lines would be far better than what we currently have in the US.