2 President’s Democracy

[integral]

The point of this system is that one president is elected for each party, so you have two presidents.

Both of them keep each other in check and require consensus to get anything done.

Would this work? 🤨

Another thing that you could possibly do is have a anti-corruption government section. Is well funded, and whose job is to prevent corruption in every possible domain of government.

Which will likely never work because the anti-corruption section will be corrupt. But it’s worth a try. Lol

[Nivsch]

Great thing. Too many balances and brakes are still much better than half of the population who hijack the other half and charge with no proportion to their relative power in the population.

Edited April 14 by Nivsch

[Jannes]

If their views are too different they wont get anything done. Here in germanys last election we had parties which didnt agree with each other so progress was difficult. 

A key question I asked myself though was if that would be a bad thing. Trump does lots of things which are hurtful, Biden did many things which were helpful, if they both were in office and blocked each other then maybe on average it would be similiarly good. Or maybe it would be better because it would create stability. Or maybe worse because the population doesnt see any change so it isnt educated. Well if the pendulum doesnt swing back and forth a little some things would maybe never happen. For example healthcare. And then this progress is hard to pull out of peoples hands once they tasted it. Maybe even phases with lots of change and then stability phases would be best.

[LastThursday]

There wouldn't be much to stop the two presidents secretly agreeing to be corrupt together.  But there's something in it, in that they should keep each other in check, especially if each president had their own set of people under them. What if one party gets a LOT more votes than the other, should one president have more power then the other?

[BlueOak]

4 hours ago, integral said:

The point of this system is that one president is elected for each party, so you have two presidents.

Both of them keep each other in check and require consensus to get anything done.

Would this work? 🤨

Another thing that you could possibly do is have a anti-corruption government section. Is well funded, and whose job is to prevent corruption in every possible domain of government.

Which will likely never work because the anti-corruption section will be corrupt. But it’s worth a try. Lol

Its better for stability and moves from pure duality to needing commonality instead. But it slows down potential development from the swings duality offers, which right now might be a blessing.

Increase it to 12 people and most social and economic groups would be represented in a council. Its impossible to have one figurehead represent the population when that figurehead hasn't learned to accept all the perspectives of the population, or aspects of themselves, and use that as a base starting point for governance. So, 12 individuals from different walks of life, expertise, and outlooks would be how I would structure an ideal government.

Edited April 14 by BlueOak

[Leo Gura]

America is already suffering too badly from gridlock.

There is good reason why there are not two CEOs in every company.