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David S.'s avatar

I would be for a better system of representation and a total neutering of the oligarchy. In your system, I do believe there is a little room for a head of state of sorts. It could come from the same place diplomacy is generated and said person would be more of a face for the people when dealing with heads of other states. That said, I believe many of our foreign policy issues would be mostly resolved by proper diplomacy rather than what we have now... forced capitulation to irrational hegemony.

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Single chanber is a good idea yes.

However, equally important, I believe, are better means of informing the public about issues being deliberated, and also correctly balancing the power so that there is a mix of centralized power, and local level power.

Right now politics is a mess because it's all sound bites, and no information. Lobbyists send 700 page prewritten laws to the congress, congressmen and their staff hardly read them, and just vote based on what their paymasters said. The public never gets time to read them, analyze them or share thouugh about them. So all proposals need to be floated with full details, enough time for public oversight, and no mixing and matching to drag separate issues together on voting. And social media needs to be removed from kids and strictly regulated as to how it operates - because right now it is producing a generation of peabrained idiots who have no attention span and no ability to focus - its corrosive to discourse and democracy.

Secondly trust in politics lies in small groups, like your neigbhourhood or your city. People you know and see. This level of politics needs to have more influence and more ability to resist the money overlords that drive naitonal politics to hell. I understand we have seen the hell of "states rights" and how that can be used to do foul things, but there must be more of a balance here. At the moment we have stupidiy like congress passing laws to deny communities the right to build publicly owned and controleld infrastrcuture, or the the right to regulate products or their local physical environment. Which is absrurd and has to go.

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