Indeed what is needed is an authoritarian, meritocratic system.
Most of the time most people are happy as long as the economy is going well.
But considering US laws wouldn't you say any US president in their second term don't care about reelection so they are more free in their second term to create change for the better because it is not like they are going to get kicked out of office for it... they have to leave anyway.
The problem for America is that the problems are engrained and it would take more than two terms to make things better.
Starting the process would make things worse to start with which means you wont get a second term, the only real chance is to make small changes, subtle and not noticed small changes in your first term and then in your second term you can make big changes... but the chances are the changes will just mess things up initially and the next president will simply claim they failed and roll them all back before they can start to do any good.
Equally being president is not enough, you need to control both the Senate and the Congress, which is why independent presidents are useless because the Senate and Congress will never be independent controlled and democrats and republicans wont help an independent even if it saved the entire country...
In my view, the egregious example is submission to AIPAC--a bunch of traitors who consider the US just a milch cow for their favorite foreign country.
And that is the key.... western countries don't care they are controlled by a foreign country... the US, and the US doesn't care if Israel manipulates them either... it is when China or Russia is hinted at trying they wet themselves and go ape shit.
Of course I would object to being a prisoner in my own home but sex slave to a super hot woman might be appealing if she was fun and not crazy nasty.
1) prone to advertisement propaganda which is why the size of the campaign budget in the USA translates into likelihood of winning
Lack of air time to independent candidates also effects their low votes... here in New Zealand media outlets are required to give equal air time to all candidates and that is for debates and political messages. Different groups get funding for the purpose so money or lack of it does not stop someone from being heard.
Ideal democracy may not exist now , but relative democracy does exist . It is a question of degree .
Democracy is overrated. Take money out of the equation in terms of bribery, and ensure your politicians are interested in your country and your people first and anything else is secondary and you don't need 100 candidates and you don't need everyone to vote.
There are people who pay attention to politicians and listen to what they say but such people are rare and few will listen to all the politicians, they will listen to the politicians in the party they traditionally vote for and if they seem OK or they recognise the name they will vote for them.
Many people will vote against someone they don't like. Others will vote for a face or name or a gender.
Most green party members are nutters who would rather everyone lives in a hole in the ground to save the planet... most farmers I know are green too but would never vote for the green party because they are detached from reality and don't care about people.
Farmers work with animals including the butchering of them for food... most green people say they hate animals, but they spend most of their time protecting them and feeding them and keeping them healthy.
What I am saying is that in the communist system if you were interested in politics... the way things are run... you joined the communist party and you got involved in politics and you voted for people. If you weren't you didn't, but if you had a problem you could still go to your local communist person and talk to them about problems or issues and have them talk to the higher ups to get it sorted. Commisars were shot on sight during WWII by the Germans but of course there were bad ones but also good ones that almost worked like social workers in the military using political power to help their fellow soldiers... but such stories are not popular in the west... but that is the equivalent of the Russians claiming all catholic priests are child molesters or are guilty of moving child molesters around as they get caught instead of caring about the children in their care they worry about the reputation of the organisation. I would say the fact that you protected child molesters and moved them to evade justice is actually worse than the admission that you might have some.
I don't know what a perfect system is for a country but I do know it really depends on who is in power and how much they like transparency and anti corruption and law and order.
Putin has been good for Russia because he is all about the rules and doing the right thing even if it is not obviously beneficial at the time.
I think their mix of democracy and free market economy, but also nationalisation of things to prevent abuse or corruption and to ensure the country benefits from its own resources instead of some foreign company with the technology to extract it.
Government run things don't have to be corrupt and inefficient. Privately owned things siphon money and resources out of the country and often sell raw materials undervalue to friends companies so they can make good profits too all and the expense of the average Russian.
Home
Latest images
Register
Log in
An American official to The Wall Street Journal: It is difficult this time to know the timing of the Iranian attack. Last time, we knew the timing because Iran wanted us to know, but this time is different.
@ResistanceTrench
/
/
/
NEW: Non-stop flights of IL-96 cargo planes from Russia to Iran, presumably carrying heavy military hardware 
