Democracy as we know it has run its course - It is time to modernize our Government

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

1. The political party system needs to be terminated and replaced by direct democracy

Perhaps...But it'll take a cutural shift for citizens to actually utilize this or will actually end being more corrupt then then party system.

A revolution may be needed for a change of this magnitude to take place. But if the politicians' truly care for the people whom they claim to represent, this change should be able to transpire peacefully.

A peaceful revolt? Plz.

2. Voting rights need to be earned

Absolutely not.

First of all who decides what constitutes voting rights.

As we all are aware, the present ruling in most western countries is that all citizens have the right to vote regardless of their education, critical thinking skills, and intelligence. To put it bluntly, we are giving the most unintellectual and unknowing persons equal power to the persons who take the time to truly analyze the problems that a society faces, when deciding on the solution.

The reason was because people in power purposely limited the education and voting rights of minorities. That will happen again if given the chance, despite how civilized society is

In a world where intelligence can be measured and most education is free or easily accessible to those who want it, this is simply unacceptable.

Why do you think this is? Because the people in power don't have authority to change it. Once you have voting rights being earned then those in power can a will limit how power can be spread. CIP China, North Korea. Intellgence is not easily accesible there.

To put this in perspective, you can't join the army if you are not disciplined. and you can't be a policeman if you are blind. So why would you be able to state your opinion and make decisions on issues that you don't understand or are incapable of understanding? 

Freedom of Speech and Thought. 

For this reason, you should not be able to vote if your capability to form an educated opinion on the matter at hand is deemed inadequate.

By whom...This is literally the worst idea.

3. Voting rights need to be measured

Disqualifying the individuals who have been proven unfit to govern the society is only the first key reform concerning voting rights. The second logical step is to make the value of each individual vote proportionate to the value of its voter's opinion. As an example, a person who has done more studies and gained higher results on Intelligence quotient tests than average should be given a more valuable vote to reflect his higher probability of voting for the better and more reasonable option. Of course, there will always be exceptions where a highly qualified person votes for a less beneficial option than the average voter, but you can never make rules based on exceptions: The end result in large is what matters.

Again "logical" will clearly fail in practice, in an illogical world, this is almost as bad as 3.

This incoporates a lot of what is wrong with 2. Who decides what is the most logical. Whats to stop people with more power from gaining more power?

For the betterment of humanity, following these steps should be the logical route to take from here. And quite frankly, the only reason that we haven't already made progress toward this direction is because of all the power that's been unfairly distributed to people of lesser intelligence: People who pull us all down by clinging on to their one way of feeling equal to people of superior intellect and decision making skills.

Today we have the means of identifying those individuals. The sooner we act, the sooner we will prosper.

This might seem to work in theory, but realistically it will fail almost immedeatly and in the process degrade us into a totalitarian government.

There is a reason we still have democracy, its cause smart people haven't figure out better ways that work out for the people who are actually being governed. Which is the pupose of government.