What is the holy grail of Snap Track??
Not using the holy grail of GPS???
Ilmarinen
US system is usually proud of at least making sure
there are four safety locks against dictatorship,
checks and balances, the balancing power of the
house,senate,president, and if all go wrong, the
supreme court.
Taking turns is obviously the simple way, ensuring
no one-party dictatorship except for brief moments.
(interleaving elections, just like reed-salomon codes)
But according to most informed,knowledgable,etc opinions
the problem is that the voters get frustrated with
all the smokes and mirrors keeping up that circus balance,
or should one call it a balance of terror or ignorance??
Which brings the thoughts to the basic thing of local
"more detailed" (multy party) democracy under union
supervision, what EU is now trying to achieve.
(basic problem is large numbers of voters and
limited number of seats in a congress, US 250 million
and maybe max of 500 seats, small nations like Finland
5 million and same max, ratio 500,000 down to 10,000 by
elected candidate, cmpr russia or china, india, or
the thought of a congress with 10,000 memembers)
My point at two levels
- don't be too blinded by "how great" the US system is
- don't think it is a an easy,simple thing
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to be more academically, political, democracy specfic,
some think that the goal of this century will be a
"center based, consensus system" based on three
large parties, the center representing the "common
sense", but not strong enough to become a defacto
one-party system.
To be mean and evil-sprited, the 2-party systems are a thing
of the past.
To be Nokia centered, the promise of Ollila to keep
Nokia below 100,000 employee (cmpr 250 or 2,000
million employee)
And those who will be around some 30-60 years from now
will see how it turned out.
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Anyway, as I hope I've said before, anyone who can find
a way out of the 2-party frustration of US (and UK,Canada)
will surely get his picture in all future books on
democracy. Main problem,risks, being the diversity of US,
large population, danger of regional, "ethnic" conflicts,
Alaska vs Florida (heating vs A/C costs), etc, break up of
the union,etc,etc,etc.. |
