once again...if its in the best interests of my constituents! if they benefit from it......who they gunna vote for next time???
give me a good Independent and I'll make him president ;-)
Ban the parties?
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give me a good Independent and I'll make him president ;-)
When I was at the local candidates' debate, i was tempted to ask a question directed... at the audience!:x
Seriously. Some of these people really shouldn't be voting!
A couple of the candidates are idiots, but guess what. They still outshine many of their voters, and the average in this town has a degree! So what can we expect?
the average in this town has a degree........those with the degrees got them by being "trained' inside a certain box
those of us who dont have degrees dont know our "bounderies" ...lol we should be on ritalin perhaps........ :lol:
Consider how stupid the average person is and then realize 50% of the population is dumber than that!
Colpy is wrong. Political parties are a corruption of democracy, not a part of democracy. Some democracies do not have political parties. For example Nunavut and the North West Territories. In these territories political parties are banned. People vote for the best local candidate, who then represents them in the legislature. Its a democratic system called "Consensus Government".
This government was inspired by traditional aboriginal systems of governance. Members of the legislature are elected as independents from single member districts by simple plurality voting. As in other Westminster system parliaments the legislature selects the premier, the speaker and the cabinet from amongst themselves, and the government is dependent on retaining the confidence of the legislature. However due to the absence of political parties there is no formal opposition and instead of party caucuses members regularly participate in a caucus of all members of the legislature.
While consensus models of discourse often require that a true consensus be reached, in consensus government policies advanced by the government are decided upon by majority vote; the government must therefore support policies that please a majority of the entire legislature if it wants them to pass. Notions of party discipline are not relevant to such deliberations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_government
The most democratic system would not even involve politicians. Everything would be decided by referendum.
Colpy is wrong. Political parties are a corruption of democracy, not a part of democracy. Some democracies do not have political parties. For example Nunavut and the North West Territories. In these territories political parties are banned. People vote for the best local candidate, who then represents them in the legislature. Its a democratic system called "Consensus Government".
This government was inspired by traditional aboriginal systems of governance. Members of the legislature are elected as independents from single member districts by simple plurality voting. As in other Westminster system parliaments the legislature selects the premier, the speaker and the cabinet from amongst themselves, and the government is dependent on retaining the confidence of the legislature. However due to the absence of political parties there is no formal opposition and instead of party caucuses members regularly participate in a caucus of all members of the legislature.
While consensus models of discourse often require that a true consensus be reached, in consensus government policies advanced by the government are decided upon by majority vote; the government must therefore support policies that please a majority of the entire legislature if it wants them to pass. Notions of party discipline are not relevant to such deliberations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_government
The most democratic system would not even involve politicians. Everything would be decided by referendum.