No one educated on the issue is criticizing that governments are able to effect positive change. It's that our governments are setup in a way that ineffectually compromises balance with shortsighted popular political stunts & corruption via dealings in secrecy.
I know this is a major tangent but if we want government to represent us, we have to change it in simple ways.
- Force living standards of the middle class onto them. No special treatment like elevated healthcare and huge pensions. They're not kings, the world won't end if they die a shitty death like the rest of us.
- Tie their wages to the average middle class citizen. That way they're rewarded for improving the living standard of most of the country.
- Retirement after office. No chance for lobbying. No bribing them with cushy jobs+bonuses after their term of exploitation.
- Creating a voting system that actually works. Stop this popularity contest BS and genuine altruistic leaders.
- Mandatory factual education per-requisite for voting for specific areas of expertise. No one should be able to vote until they meet a threshold of competency and comprehension of the candidates. These tests should be by a unbiased third party non-profit.
- Make the lives of representatives activities completely public, in real-time. It was their choice to represent hundreds of millions of people. They need to sacrifice their freedom for our own.
Bet this would fix a lot given most of these issues we're getting ourselves into are human problems rather than ideological problems. I would also like to see basic income be tried on a large scale for once, that'd be interesting.
I know this is a major tangent but if we want government to represent us, we have to change it in simple ways.
- Force living standards of the middle class onto them. No special treatment like elevated healthcare and huge pensions. They're not kings, the world won't end if they die a shitty death like the rest of us.
- Tie their wages to the average middle class citizen. That way they're rewarded for improving the living standard of most of the country.
- Retirement after office. No chance for lobbying. No bribing them with cushy jobs+bonuses after their term of exploitation.
- Creating a voting system that actually works. Stop this popularity contest BS and genuine altruistic leaders.
- Mandatory factual education per-requisite for voting for specific areas of expertise. No one should be able to vote until they meet a threshold of competency and comprehension of the candidates. These tests should be by a unbiased third party non-profit.
- Make the lives of representatives activities completely public, in real-time. It was their choice to represent hundreds of millions of people. They need to sacrifice their freedom for our own.
Bet this would fix a lot given most of these issues we're getting ourselves into are human problems rather than ideological problems. I would also like to see basic income be tried on a large scale for once, that'd be interesting.