That doesn't even logically work when voting in any parliamentary system is based on a majority. It is totally rational to make coalitions. In order to get what is important for you to be pushed through, you have to make then packs with other who have their agenda. Hence the party system basically will emerge, even if they aren't called political parties.We need a global movement to end party politics, as it is a bad system.
Governments should be made up of independent local representatives, who are democratically elected based on how well they can demonstrate that they reflect the views of the majority of those they represent. — universeness
I'm hoping the cause of this is seen clearly as the unelectability of Trump candidates so that the Trump era can once and for all come to an end. — Hanover
That doesn't even logically work when voting in any parliamentary system is based on a majority. It is totally rational to make coalitions. In order to get what is important for you to be pushed through, you have to make then packs with other who have their agenda. Hence the party system basically will emerge, even if they aren't called political parties. — ssu
We need a global movement to end party politics, as it is a bad system. — universeness
I think there have to be established and enduring institutions that provide vision and continuity. — T Clark
We could, for instance, select people at random to fill seats in Congress or Parliament. — Bitter Crank
even IF some scheme were devised that would eliminate the emergence of political parties, it would require some sort of heavy handed administrative body to enforce it. The anti-political administration would end up being worse than the political parties. — Bitter Crank
Smaller reforms in the way politics operates are a better bet. Maintaining open access to the polls, for instance, is one such approach. Conservatives (in the US) have tended to erect barriers to voter access. Or, recently, they have tried to eliminate voting by mail. Public financing of campaigns is another smaller idea. — Bitter Crank
Surely a government of independents who were actually voted in because they have convinced people at a local level that they have their best interests at heart is got to be better that voting for a party label, and not a person. — universeness
Do you not agree that these are some of the reasons why politics are so toxic at the moment? — universeness
You could not get a sheet of paper between the official positions of the two parties. — NOS4A2
I doubt we would ever be members of the same political party, but we might vote the same way on certain issues. — universeness
Issue by issue politics. Political independents, fighting for the interests of their own voters, who will negotiate and find common cause with other independents, who make up the government. It would be up to the second chamber and the civil servants to identify any unacceptable stealth tactics in use or any backroom deals in play when individual representatives vote. — universeness
Term limits is smart, but it's another issue.New groups could be formed after each election, and it would probably be wise to limit the number of times any individual could be elected to become a member of the first chamber. — universeness
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