I believe that the best society can be achieved with “referendum democracy” – a rule in the Constitution, that a law can be accepted only with an online referendum (except maybe situations of war). At first glance, it may seem that such a system will not work, since an ordinary citizen is a layman in matters of governing the country. But this will not be such a big problem, since the referendums will be initiated by the authorities, i.e. experts, and they only need to convince the population of their position (by raising the level of education of the population for this).
However,
for this system to work well, one more step is needed: a law on compulsory
post-school education. For example, each citizen will have to spend half an
hour a day studying materials that help understand the government of the
country, and in case of non-compliance, pay an increased tax. I believe that
the principle must be implemented: each citizen can choose what information he
will study, but he must justify why, as he believes this information will help
him vote more correctly, and this explanation should sound reasonable (this
idea develops 20 article of the United Nations Convention against Corruption).
And then a
new problem arises: since the resources of the brain are limited, it is
difficult for a person to be versatile, and if he spends a lot of time studying
the issues of running a country, he will earn less in his main job.
Accordingly, a society in which the state forces everyone to study the issues
of governing the country will be more reasonable and less likely to make erroneous
decisions, but at the same time, it may militarily and economically lose
competition to societies in which such norms do not exist. Therefore, such a
society must export its way of life, perhaps even by military means. This is
similar to the idea of exporting democracy by military means, which I fully
support (“so that the barbarians do not conquer Rome, we must make Rome
everywhere”).
I believe
that in perfect democracy the nation will not only make errors, but also study
with its errors. Besides that, for minimizing the profanation, two more
measures can be uses:
1) When an
online referendum is initiated, a group of randomly chosen citizens should be
selected, and some money will be offered for them for studying materials,
important for this referendum. This group will vote, and the results of its
vote will be a good information for other citizens. It should be noted that a
sufficiently big sum of money should be offered for the members of this group,
so that the majority of selected people will agree to participate (otherwise
this group will not be an representative sample of the population);