llmarinen, When I see countries with excess representation, as I put it, I see fractious politics and endless debate about the most minor of things. It becomes a PTA meeting. These splinter groups I see in other countries are all after power through sale of their votes to the major group, king makers, they call it. You can have 30 parties, many with 2-4% and the main ones with 15% or so, and that allows for many combinations to make a majority and a switch of one 3% group can make the government fall, so they ask a huge price and get their wishes.
Remove their currency by making their votes secret is all I ask. Then what cannot be seen to be bought has no value. In other words you cannot buy a vote because you cannot verify they voted as you paid.
What is really needed is the ability to get a decision made and implemented that fits the majority. If that be a tyranny of the majority, so be it. Those people can silently differ, emigrate or whatever they like, but to allow their quibbles to delay the process adds to the cost of the process.
For example, the USA speaks English. So the less the country adapts to other languages the better it is for us all. Those that want Spanish road signs should realize that all the words found on road signs are less than 100 and anyone can learn those easily.
I do not mean names, but stop, no parking etc.
If you add Spanish to all signs you make the signs harder for all to read and it would be far simpler to make the Spanish drivers learn those 100 terms.
If someone wants to start a Spanish TV network, let them. If they can attract people to watch it that is fine. Let them have cable/satellite spectrum, if not broadcast spectrum, unless there is unused spectrum in the broadcast ranges. |
