Yep, MAJORITY of the issues in the West are because the 'so long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care' crowd are allowed the same voting rights as the rest of us.
I'm seriously thinking Starship Troopers has the best voting system as it weeds these parasites out.
'Service Guarantees Citizenship' and 'only citizens can vote' is a good system, but I think there's some other components that should be considered.
I understand why some people on the populist Left want direct, but this is one of the reasons I want stratified voting. The only things that you should vote on are the things directly within your community and the government you create to govern you. From there, those local government members are the only people that vote on state issues. Those state governments then vote on Federal issues. Etc.
The only people voting on a thing, should be the people effected by the thing. Thus, you only vote one step up in the stratification. The government's jurisdiction should be only one step down. The government can only really regulate the relationships of the people that put it in power.
A direct vote on something like boarders may be too broad. The only exception to this in my mind would be "votes of no confidence". If you pissed X number of raw people off at the bottom rung, then you must have fucked something up royally, and you should get removed.
The issue with this is who controls the categorization. If something can be taken away by the government it will be eventually abused against you. Just as even starship troopers pointed out, when the military expanded significantly, the risk to earn citizenship decreased significantly so many more people signed up without having to “earn it”. When the government expands enough they will demand to be a part of everything while allowing you to nothing.
Yep, MAJORITY of the issues in the West are because the 'so long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care' crowd are allowed the same voting rights as the rest of us.
I'm seriously thinking Starship Troopers has the best voting system as it weeds these parasites out.
'Service Guarantees Citizenship' and 'only citizens can vote' is a good system, but I think there's some other components that should be considered.
I understand why some people on the populist Left want direct, but this is one of the reasons I want stratified voting. The only things that you should vote on are the things directly within your community and the government you create to govern you. From there, those local government members are the only people that vote on state issues. Those state governments then vote on Federal issues. Etc.
The only people voting on a thing, should be the people effected by the thing. Thus, you only vote one step up in the stratification. The government's jurisdiction should be only one step down. The government can only really regulate the relationships of the people that put it in power.
A direct vote on something like boarders may be too broad. The only exception to this in my mind would be "votes of no confidence". If you pissed X number of raw people off at the bottom rung, then you must have fucked something up royally, and you should get removed.
The issue with this is who controls the categorization. If something can be taken away by the government it will be eventually abused against you. Just as even starship troopers pointed out, when the military expanded significantly, the risk to earn citizenship decreased significantly so many more people signed up without having to “earn it”. When the government expands enough they will demand to be a part of everything while allowing you to nothing.
I don't disagree, I just think static boarders of states, counties, townships v. cities, are already in place and make sense.