Prof Yvonne Streckova used to say to us that the best version of society ruling is under an enlightened monarch. To have your feudal lord enlightened is a pure luck, to have bad democracy representation is a norm. The young, women and poor are severely underrepresented, the landlords are overrepresented. The systems are such that the representatives are mostly chosen because they are rich, own media or manage old boy klans that often impared with silly mutual benefit rituals. But democracy does not need to be this way.
1stly: There used to be times of sortition. Sortition is a MP lottery, a random choice that had been tried and tested in the ancient Athens. Any citizen =anybody who might be interested has chance. We want to have our say but not all, some are wise, busy or stupid to pass on this chance to fulfil our societal potentials. The randomly chosen MPs from a pool of would-be politicians will rule better than today's professionals, since they are 1] representing underrepresented 2] not corrupted, not wasting time on status and intrigues 3] more open, flexible, fit for changing times 4] willing to put in work and learn 5] new. The problem may be the risk of drawing an unlucky string of inept manipulable MPs who would become puppets of their mentors. Also expected long term insensitivity [short term goals preference] can be a bit stronger than that of the current deputies, who know they could buy the posts for years. I would give it a try... a big one. 2ndly Soon will our decisions use some AI support. There can be direct and permanent representation using bespoke artificial brains/avatars [a program or an app] trained to permanently represent on behalf of any voting constituent who would chose to teach them his/her own nuanced views and positions. The people who would prefer this option should organise themselves in a party to have a chance to opt out from the old party system because this old system does not really represent anybody. [see how many turn up to vote] to be represented alongside of the rest who would rather keep their own traditional human MPs. Both should coexist in one parliament and evolve side by side for better ruling. The voting within this new party should be verifiable. The enlightened MPs of existing parliaments should 'betray' their parties to serve as the proxies of this direct democracy even before elections. 3rdly: A referendum. Referendums should be something normal [John Matsusaka showed the plebiscites decide better than MPs] But they are too few and too 50/50 and too expensive. The complications with voting, with costs and media theatre around today's referendums deem them quite unpopular. In places where they are really used, they work well. The voting should be electronic [say by email], verifiable in a big 2D poster [table] with all votes in a grid so that anybody can instantly see their own voting and that the total/voting result is correct. No chance for fraud.
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