I am a supporter of democracy, but with one important
caveat: I am not satisfied with the lack of efficiency in modern democracies of
the West. Western countries now have too many problems, and local politicians,
as a rule, do not even try to voice these problems.
I believe that it is
quite a necessary step to introduce laws which help people with small
experience in politics to come to power. Firstly, the state must support
"technical ministers": people who have knowledge how to work as
ministers, and not motivated too much to become politicians themselves.
Probably a lot (random selection) can be good for this: suppose that the state
finds 300 persons by lot, provides them money and lets them elect most smart
people among them who can become such ministers.
Another idea is that
the participatory budgeting is needed: a system in which citizens of a country
vote via the Internet on how to distribute the budget money. With such a
system, ministers will be able to collect funding for their departments through
the participatory budgeting portal, which means that they (ministers) will be
less dependent on the president / prime
minister and more on the population. Accordingly, rarer will there be a
situation when the president / prime minister will alienate a too outstanding
minister from power as a possible competitor for himself.
The next point is
that with participatory budgeting, people and organizations that brought a
smart person to power will be able to make money on this. Suppose a party is
created that declares its goal to find and promote people with outstanding
qualities who will become good leaders. Having made a certain person president,
such a party will be able to collect its own reward through participatory
budgeting: the more this president becomes popular, the more the party will
earn. I.e., theoretically, under such a
system, finding and promoting an outstanding person will become a kind of
business for party members.
If we assume that
big money gives politicians the opportunity to come to power, then
participatory budgeting can turn this to the benefit of society: a good
politician will be able to make big money on popularity and real achievements
(only with a time delay - first spend, and only then earn).
The fundamental problem of democracy is that a president or
prime minister is always interested in not supporting one of his ministers who
is too smart, who might become more popular than the president and thus become
his competitor. Accordingly, the president always tries to fire ministers who
are too smart. To minimize this problem, it is necessary to make ministers less
dependent on the president, and for this, again, participatory budgeting is
needed. Another expression for the same idea is if some ministers are appointed
not by the president or PM, but chosen via the Internet. For some areas, such
as the army, this is inappropriate (war requires unity of command), but for
many others it is quite suitable, especially for those that involve the
dissemination of information.
The political system must provide people like celeibities or famous scientists the possibility to go into politics: firstly they will be able to initiate a voting in the internet via participatory bugdeting system, and the population will vote for providing these celebrities some state money for learning how to govern the country (if these celebrities are sufficiently popular and smart to win such voting). Then these celebrities will become more experienced in politics, and eventually they will be able to win the usual election.
And one more point: the constitution should stipulate that all ministers must maintain personal blogs in order to share information, that will help new politicians rule the country if they come to power.