I think the example most modern governments have set has leaned towards the fact that Governments given limited resources, having a bin of funds to work with, when pressed to action are forced to neglect opinion gathering. A politician constantly in the arenas of politics is not there talking to the people they represent.
Quite frankly, in too much of a hurry things cost way more than they should, so with that in mind, from the getgo all governments of today are running on insufficient funds from the get-go to pay for information income(opinion and public attitude being gathered and made relevant to action) information fluidation(getting decisions made quickly) and information outgo(sending final orders out to the national body) all at optimum efficiency in an equal and balanced way at the rate people want to develop without running a deficit somewhere....
Add that most of them end up run by corrupt dictator-like individuals, we may as well be installing world-dominating faultily functioning AIs into the cabinets. Or they're just rich people who actually had enough money to spend and borrow and spend who have no real world humanistic directional understanding- They only understand waving a carrot to move a horse, and not communicating with the horse and asking it to go here or there.
Really good leaders come from good followers- to say the least, the best leadership is bread in the lower levels where things are tougher. But sometimes they go astray too, so...
What astounds me is that governments can spend billions of dollars on all of this when most of what they end up doing was common sense to begin with! Shoot, any free money you may find these days is common cents, and common sense can be gained from anywhere and any direction you look, so that may as well be considered free too. Add that it takes all of a split second to make a snap judgement- minor inaccuracies and errors can easily be accounted for- that's what the system exists to do. Doing what makes sense to a wise individual is usually not a bad way to go, it shouldn't take 2 years to make a decision to make a change 2 years down the road.
And honestly I think it's because we lacked the good sense at the time to make a firm GRAY AREA- middle ground, neutral zone, "No Holds Barred" "Relatively Safe and Contained War in the form of Combats and Battles" sort of deal. I mean, with every state having 2 senators- There's no reason one can't be Democrat or Republican... and the other is Independent.... Even so much as a randomly selected normal person. They're supposed to work together anyway.... In the least, we wouldn't be acting like computers with a Binary System going R, D, D, R, R, D, R, D, R, D, R, R, R...... When we could be going RI, DI, DI, RI, IR, RI, DI, or you know... putting a little humanity into things. The general rule of thumb with governments is that they operate best as a representational hierarchy- One based on a few based on a bunch based on a council based on a caucus based on a neighborhood......Really, you could say they operate best "Naturally"- this really just means a selection within accordance to the availability.
This should really never be a limited selection in any way- but for sake of the way the system is set up, requires political know-how to get in- doesn't matter where that political knowhow is inevitably sourced from, just that those understandings are present. Most paperwork is done by cronies these days anyway- even the looking up of the necessary legal terminology. We could really alleviate that by using legal terminology in the abstract(summary, simplest form possible), with an along-side common or "al ley" or "ley al" or "lay al"- average everyday person words. As then all the legal-mumbo-jumbo-side-stuff wouldn't take quite so much time- the idea is to understand both, just like any good sample of the population- a representative sample.... representing as a representative re presenting the present pre-sent preset principles put forth by the present population partaking and being a party to the professional political agenda putting plans in place and parlaying for their production.... quite possibly preferring process puts problems into the possibilities of political progress rather than unending procession of processing processes to pick placements and people from solely the powers that be people or people putting their persons forth plotting on planning or plodding along pulled back and put down and sludged by the problematically political political system present today....Sorry for all the pitter patter on p words, perhaps a poignant point to that ponder-some recurrance, but for now I've no desire to explain that one again...
Personally I think we really need to revise our "collective logic system" and how it gathers the opinions of the masses and relays it to the chosen representatives- we still want humans in those positions, eheh... just to keep it human. But the ability to gather and garner the opinion of the general population is, relative to capability of planning and presenting those plans to get them enacted and capability of action, SORELY lacking today.
I mean it's really simple to say that a representative should be represent the public- to do that we don't just grab from one bin- we grab from all of them, that's just being a good statistician talking, and the senate should be able to both include understanding of working the system(the in-game mentality) and even so much as the fantastic dreaming idealist(the out-game mentality). Old Traditions and New Potentials, and what not.....
Idunno, it's not that I don't like the way we do things- we just know so much more about how things work in general that getting the political system working much better would basically be a walk in the park... and I mean that. I guess you could say that's a world-wide compliment, but too bad only <1% will ever see it, hah!.ioi.!.oio.! Methinks that old beast of a mechanic needs a wee bit of oiling and maybe an upgrade, don't you guys?
