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[–] shrink ago 

This is a question for which I have not personally arrived at the answer yet. The question "what is the best government" is apparently not so easy to respond to. I've thought about enfranchisement, and who should be excluded or not; I do agree that a direct democracy is a guaranteed shortcut to disaster. To make a better government do we change it to something else, or somehow restrict voting to whom it was only originally intended for in the first place (i.e. white male landowners)? Hitler had a successful system of national socialism, but even operating on the assumption that the government itself was the inherent cause of its success, Hitler seemed to have the best interests of the people in mind. What happens if you set up a system like that and a self serving monster like Clinton takes control? What's to stop a national socialist government from falling victim to an unethical soulless abomination? If the answer is "well the citizenry would have guns and revolt," that's already something supposedly put in place, in our own very Constitution. And yet look where we are.

The whole thing is a mess.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

Agreed. The problem for me isn't "who holds the power" it's "what can you do about it if they fuck up." Right now the answer is "grin and bear it, and hope the next guy is better" or even more ridiculously "spend the rest of your life working your way up the political system and somehow amass millions of dollars in bribes so you can take over personally."

The whole thing is completely unwieldy and unresponsive to consumer demand. It should be as simple as sending in a notice informing the government that you no longer require their services and you're signing up with someone else. If you could do that, then so many wars would be averted, Hitler would never have had to "invade" Germany, Germany would simply have united of it's own accord. And if some superelite portions of New York descend down the path of cultural marxism and wanting to flood their country with refugees, they'll pretty quickly find themselves quarantined.