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Divide and Rule

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The politicians have done this so far but now it is our turn to turn the tables. Now we have the required powerfull tools of expression and reaction, for the first time in history.

Lets see how we can do it:-

The winner rules but the RUNNER UP is not shown the door during the whole tenure.He is used as the first reactor of the current politics.

He is always consulted by the media after every decision and is given equal time to express himself.

Whenever, George Bush delivers his speech, Kerry appears in press conferrance and expresses his views and asked specifically,

How he would have acted if he was in the power.

Whenever, a corrupt politician is displaced, the runner up of the election is handed over the seat.

A 24 hour, speciallized FOLLOW UP or PURSUE TV channel is started, specialized in covering day to day updates on all past and current controversiel issues effecting the society.

Interviews, specially with opposition parties, expert reports, public interviews, debates, public opinion and eventual voting should take place on the screen as their main contents. So that, OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND tool is not misused by malignant politicians or other powerful malefectors.

It should be a UNO financed WORLD CHANNEL like BBC, CNN or alike and cover the stories from all over the world.

Then we would know who is eating on our tax money? who is effected in which area by whose politics?

Then we know, 2 years after disaster, how much money was promised as help or aid by which country, how much of that has been paid and why, how and where that has been spent and whether or not the experts confirm the figures.

Ruling party---should act like a pure positive power for SOCIETY.

Runner up---as a pure negative power for the RULING PARTY.

and the media---purely as neutral power for BOTH.

In that case, we may achieve a proper balance and equilibrium point of politics.

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 27 2007

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I'm terribly sorry but your contribution is terribly naive and impractical. It has no basis in the reality of how political systems function and how power works.Also the United Nations is abbreviated as UN, not UNO. It is not a world government. It is merely the sum of the government members which is another thing altogether.

sand, Jan 27 2007

sand,

The political systems work on the HOLD OF POWER. The others bow in front of power holders. When the power use comes under scrutiny, the scrutinizer becomes power holder. In this case, the public.

Shold we just follow the systems imposed on us or should we INNOVATE new ideas to shift this power, thereby curbing the ways of abuse of power?

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 27 2007

Your suggestions so far fail to take into consideration that many people who hold power do so under their own fortitude, and act in self-interest. Their power is not one of loaned authority from the people. It is business owners, billionaires, who control large influences in various markets. It is not possible to take power away from such people through artificial means, because of the spread of wealth and influence over many countries. An oil sheik may influence politics in many countries through partners in those countries to create favorable economics.

Your ideas utilize solid, pure ideals as their foundation. These are a lot like unstable heavy elements - they only exist under artificial conditions, for a brief period of time. This is the same reason socialism doesn't work, and why true free market capitalism didn't last for very long in the United States.

toastydeath, Jan 27 2007

Has the world been changing in the past, I wonder? We still have a log of people who JUST ACCEPT THE WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN AND STILL ARE.

Lack of sheer will or fear of change?

Things are changing, its we who have to decide their direction.

Pessimism is an excuse, optimism is a drive.

Pessimism is an escape, optimism is a challange.

pessimism is past, optimism is future.

Pessimism is dead, optimism is alive.

Accept the things the way they have been, they are or do something about it, is the question.

Depth is more important than surface.

Substance is more important than the art of presenting.

Flicking away the problem or challange is just the way you multiply them with infinity. They will arise again and you have to face them.

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 27 2007

or may be that I'm talking to an older generation.

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 27 2007

Or people who use this site as PASS TIME amusement with their half dead ideas, unchallanging thoughts and LET GO WITH THE STREAM attitude.

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 27 2007

You are insane.

toastydeath, Jan 28 2007

Optimists invent airplanes.

Pessimists invent parachutes.

Optimists say the glass is half full. Pessimists say the glass is half empty. Engineers say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Hyenuf, Jan 31 2007

Ha HA

Very Well and intelligently said Hyenuf.

Adventure is more challanging than escape.

I have put a challange in front of international society including you, me and sand. Should vi accept it and try and make it a reality or simply escape and relegate it to the next generation to do something about it?

Do we need to do this politics cleanig now or wait it to get worsened first?

Naresh Ahuja, Jan 31 2007

Ever heard of the term 'secret societies'? The cognizetti would rather rot in hell than let your ideas flourish. There is a power that is ruling behind the scenes and it takes just a flip of any country's history to uncover. Without drawing religion here, only a higher power can trully liberate mankind now. People are simply too simplistic, selfish and plain brainwashed to even think in your terms. I won't scare you but the truth is Aliens are people you think you know.

whywhywainot, Feb 02 2007

I love the sheer guts of this idea. It really makes me overjoyed to find a poltical option that actually seems new. But, like other detractors, it simply isn't realistic.

That, though, shouldn't stop you from trying to revise and come up with something that'd work in our current climate. Thinking about what intermediate steps need to be taken would be an excellent start.

The first obstacle, would be that no politican worth their salt would agree to sit around and challenge the person that beat them up. You'd need to make an unofficial position to do that BEFORE you could institute such a position officially. Usually, the failed politician would much rather return to congress or their old governmental seat, or even wallow in their own failure. Those that DO want to really sit and act as a "negative" (and you might want to rephrase that) force are usually gagged by their party, which tries to push their candidates loss out of the public mind.

So, once we can figure out some way of reorganizing the political party system, as well as reducing the disasterious political effect of losing and being wrong (We are all human, and politicians shouldn't live in fear of the career effects of being wrong, they should be in fear of how being wrong might affect the people they represent)... then maybe your idea won't sound so "crazy" to most people who just can't make the leap from the existing world to your idea for it.

dphetteix, Feb 19 2007