Fixing our broken system - where to even begin? Part 2: The political system

This is a very complex topic, but I will try to simplify it as far as possible and identify the key principles that need to be addressed to ensure that a government fully represents the people and their needs over the very long term while still being able to address shorter term and day-to-day challenges. We'll get down to the basics and then understand what works, what doesn't, and why.

Understanding political systems and why the vast majority of them are illegitimate

The vast majority of political systems are a sham to make people believe that they are in control of their governments when in fact a small elite, through a small number of parties and politicians, control their governments instead. Most people are brainwashed from a very young age to believe that their form of political system is the best way to represent them. If they didn't, they would need to admit that they do not live with a government that truly represents them and their long-term best interests. This is far too big of a red pill for most people to accept. For most people today, government and law is the cornerstone of society, even more so than religion and spirituality.

So the next important question is what is a political system intended to do, I'll try to break this down to the basics. As a preface however, I highly recommend that you read my recent post on the legal system first to understand what a legal system should do and how it should best work. The legal system is the primary basis of the discussion and the political system sits on top of the legal system to manage it along with the execution of the day-to-day laws and governance of society.

I also highly recommend listening to the following interview with G. Edward Griffin on the difference between Individualism and Collectivism as the core basis for any political systems. What you quickly realize is the vast majority of political systems are developing into more and more corrupt federalized collectivist states that are intent on abolishing the inherent rights of the individual. They are covertly maneuvring their populaces towards highly centralized political systems with the intent of eventually transferring them first to regional and then to global governance, all the while destroying any remaining local representation and autonomy.

What a political system should legitimately do:

• Represent the will and best interest of the people as a whole
• Enforce the rights and laws of the people
• Update the laws as required (including their minimization)
• Coordinate the people in their responses to common challenges (economic, military, etc.)
• May also execute common functions that are critical to society (public transportation, communications, postal systems, etc.)
• Develop and execute methods to fund any common activities (fees, taxation, etc.)

What a political system should NEVER do:

• NEVER infringe on the inherent and established rights of the people for any means without a trial of peers (no spying, no breaking and entering, no imprisonment, no confiscation of property, etc.)
• NEVER create endless laws, fees, and taxation
• NEVER create a massive and ever expanding bureaucracy of administrative bodies
• NEVER allow centralization of power away from locally controllable representives
• NEVER allow major decisions without a clear and uninfringed chain of local representation
• NEVER allow any undue influence or enrichment of politicians and administrators
• NEVER allow intransparency of influence on politicians and administrators (funding, lobbying, secret societies, internationalist bodies, think tanks, etc.)

What does a proper political system look like

I will not get into the differences of various types of governments such as a constitutional republic, a parliamentary democracy, a communist state, or a constitutional monarchy. Frankly, all of these various types of political systems can be assessed as legitimate or illegitimate based upon the principles that I define below. If the government does not enshrine the following principles, they then de facto allow the usurpation of power away from the people and into the hands of a select few. This is despite whatever propaganda they regularly give their people to the contrary.

Political systems should apply the following principles to enable the continued empowerment of their people:

• Extremely local and extremely transparent representation - Without local control and complete and full ongoing transparency of government and government officials, government misuse and corruption will be enabled
• Extremely well paid, properly educated, and extraordinarily well-vetted government representatives- If the wrong people are acting as representatives, then the wrong results will occur
• No governmental empowerment without personal accountability- Every government function must enable direct personal accountability to the people
• Extreme penalties for misuse of government positions or corruption of foundational principles - there can be no room for the corruption of the basic principles of the law and the government. Breaking of these oaths must be treated as treason to the populace being represented
• The abolition of all political parties, political lobbying, or any other form of undue political influence - Political parties, lobbyists, and politically-oriented groups (overt, covert, religious, freemasonic, or otherwise) drive undue influence on politicians and their decisions. Awareness and education on key issues should be made to the general populace. They in turn should be asked to discuss key issues with their representative(s) as part of regular local government interactions with their constituency
• The abolition of non-local voting by the general populace - voting should only be done in extremely local environments where people know and can regularly interact with their local representatives. Their representatives can in turn vote for centralized representatives or actions required
• No emergency or exceptional provision of power without local representative agreement - meaning that no government agency, president, monarch, or the like can be allowed to interfere with the local representative system for any reason or cause. Local representation becomes the ultimate authority for even emergency decisions
• Extreme minimization of government managed services - limited to services that are critical to the betterment and functioning of society and that would otherwise not be properly supported without a government support model. These services however should constantly be under review for the partial or full return of these services to the private sector if better value can be provided there. (Schooling as an example might be subsidized by government, but should never be controlled by the government. It should also be under stringent rules in which the government or others can never influence or manipulate local schooling to drive government propaganda and therefore indirectly control the populace.)
• Primarily militia-based military and police forces - so that enforcement powers always remain in the hands of the people to the largest degree

Summing up the principles outlined above

The principles outlined above are about taking away all undue influence, corruption, missing accountability, missing transparency, as well as emergency interventions from government since these are all methods currently used to abuse government; a government that was legitimately intended to be of, by, and for the people. If these above changes are not made, then government will always be manipulated against the will and best interest of the people.

What the above principles also indirectly mean is that people can't just hand over their government to supposed "experts" and politicians and let them run wild as is typically done today. People need to stay in constant dialog with their local representative(s) and direct them in how they expecting to be represented. It also means that influencers must go to the people and not the politician for any initiatives they are driving. The people, after being educated on these initiative topics, must then give the go ahead to their representative on what they would like to seen done. This has a number of very positive outcomes including educating the populace, ensuring their engagement in political dialog, and ensuring strict oversight of their local representative(s).

Granted, not all the precise details of how all these principles will be enacted are described within this short post, however, in an age of ubiquitous internet access and enhanced communications, technology can easily enable these changes as well as much, much more. The point is that a systems-theory based analysis approach must be taken to "architect out" the problems that currently exist in the system. It's not enough to just add more laws and controls. The principles of the system from the ground up must be updated to address the weaknesses in our representative government systems; weaknesses that we as the true owners of our government have been attacked through over the past decades and centuries. This has allowed the proverbial foxes into the government henhouse and now all that is left for the people are rotten eggs.

I will cover more on this and other related topics in upcoming posts in this series. In the meantime, I look forward to addressing your views and ideas in the comments section below.