• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Political parties are outlawed. Every MP should represent their own view, not tow a party line dreamt up by a PR agency.

    Your vote affects others (like driving, owning a gun etc put others at risk). To vote you must pass a test; to pass the test we offer free education. To enable you to attend this education, we offer you a universal basic income. The test must not discriminate based on gender, age, sexual orientation, income etc etc.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll go the opposite. Political parties should be anonymous. We shouldn’t associate a party with any single person.

      This has caused people not to vote for a party because they don’t like who is running it, but they agree with almost everything else.

      If the parties became faceless entities, and a list of policies, then you can make a more informed and less prejudicial vote.

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        1 year ago

        I get the subtext of that question and I can understand this concern.

        But what I’m proposing is that in a new constitution to properties of the test is guaranteed and then you’d put a cross-population group of experts together to formulate a test that lives up to those constraints. No doubt you’d end up in a courtroom every now and again to settle whether a specific question was constitutionally sound or not.

        I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

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          I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

          I don’t think we can. Have you seen the results of our “driving tests”?

          In all seriousness though. I get what you want to do, but this isn’t how you get there.