Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others
Sunday, June 25th, 2006“Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others.” - Winston Churchill
Most people in the Western world believe that democracy is the best political system to live in. True it may be the best system so far but if you think about it what democracy really is, its far from “power to the people”. How involved is the average person into politics? Ticking a box every 4 years is hardly what deserves to be called “democracy”. We vote for people we hardly know. So what would be better? I think we need to take democracy to a new level. Why not vote for political decisions instead of politicians who might act in their own interest?
If you look at Wikipedia you know there’s a lot of knowledge out there, everybody knows something we just need to find a system to tap into that knowledge and this needs to be reflected in political decisions. The decision to go to war in Iraq affected thousands of people but how many people were involved in this decision? I think its time to have Wikipedia style politics. Many people do not like politics because they can not really influence much and know that many politicians are corrupt. If any person can directly influence political decisions we would have many people be interested in politics again. The biggest problem with Wikipedia is that everybody can change anything at any time so its often unreliable and messy. If we want to have Wikipedia style politics we need a system to reward knowledgeable people with more “voting power” than people who never try to learn new things. The biggest problems of democracies is that politicians tend to become “people pleaser” to stay in power. For instance we know now that Global Warming will become a serious problem in the future and what new laws have been passed? You can still fly for 20 Pounds to your favourite Spanish island and pump a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere for very little money. We are wholesaling our environment and future.
We need to manage a country like we would manage a company. What would happen if we would manage our companies like countries? Exactly, they would be broke. Most countries are broke, even rich countries are seriously indebted. This should tell you there’s something seriously wrong with how politics work in todays time. We need to reward knowledgeable people with more political or voting power. Like we reward people in a company who work hard with a promotion. The biggest challenge is putting in place a system which judges or rates people’s knowledge, but its definitely possible. We do it successfully in schools and in companies. We would also need to judge the judge like for instance it is done at Slashdot. Its time that democracies evolve, that we use what we learned from the Internet. In some countries you can already vote without paper, why not take it one step further and make political decisions through computers with the help of anybody who is willing to share their knowledge. This might sound Utopian but I’m sure this will happen sooner or later, hopefully sooner, we would all benefit from it.
Doing a little bit research on the Internet I realized that many people already have the same thoughts like I have. Please visits the links below and support this idea of E-Democracy. We do not need politicians, everybody should be one!
http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigns_Wikia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edemocracy
http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rodmell/index.htm
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