[ExI] Fail to the chief?/was Re: Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[Tara Maya]

One of the few serious alternatives to democracy that I’ve considered might work is a system of Representative Consensus. A council of twelve, rather like a jury, is chosen by random selection from the pool of eligible citizens, and they perform as the Executive, discussing decisions and coming to a conclusion by consensus. In rare cases where consensus could not be reached, the entire council would be re-drawn. (So it would be like the Ultimate Game, in that those groups who could not reach a compromise would be punished.)

This still would work best if power were devolved as much as possible, on as many issues as possible, to the most localized form of governance possible. (Federation should be a real thing, not just of states but of counties within states and cities within counties). 

Tara Maya
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> On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com <mailto:tara at taramayastales.com>> wrote:
>> I’ll be honest: a drunken wombat could run a nation better than I.
>> 
>> That is not to say that I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with the world (of course I do), but only that I admit I don’t know how to fix it.
>> 
>> However, I’d gladly take the role of National Whining About Things, if it came with a stupendously fat salary and tenure.
> 
> You're reminding me of how random stock picks often outperform over the long term ones chosen by some rigorous method or some hotshot fund manager.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
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