How to fix democracy and stop the shitshow

In its current state, all over the world, democracy has proven to be a devastating failure with catastrophic consequences that are worsening over time.

The political system in most democratic countries is in desperate need of reform. Without a functional form of government, the collapse of democratic countries is inevitable. This article lists the most important reforms that need to be implemented to make democracy functional.

Note that a perfect political system is impossible in real life, and malicious people will always find something to criticize, but we do not need a perfect system, rather we need a good system. Improvements should be implemented step-by-step.

💰 Bribes must be outlawed

Some people think that I am a crazy conspiracy theorist when I say that most democratic countries allow wealthy people and corporations to openly bribe politicians and/or political parties.

It makes no difference whether someone calls it a “gift” or a “donation” or a “sponsorship”. Whatever it is called, it is still a bribe when it matches the definition of a bribe.

These bribes (“donations”) are very damaging to the political process. They cause rampant corruption, severe bias, and conflicts of interest. Many of these bribes are huge – millions of dollars from wealthy individuals or large corporations.

In effect, politicians are purchased and installed to do the bidding of a few wealthy individuals or corporations. In a genuine democracy, politicians are supposed to be representatives of the majority of citizens, not highly-paid servants of a few wealthy billionaires.

Bribes must be banned. This should be obvious. It is dishonest to claim that large “donations” or “sponsorships” are not bribes. A sack of money is still a sack of money regardless of what label is written on the sack.

Alternatively, if bribes are not fully banned, it might be acceptable to allow small bribes up to a maximum limit per person. Bribes from corporations must be prohibited for two reasons:

1. Because bribes from corporations would enable people to circumvent the maximum limit per person.

2. Because a democracy should be guided by its citizens and not by corporations.

In the USA, a “Political Action Committee” (PAC or “Super PAC”) is a tax-exempt organization that collects bribes/donations from one or more wealthy people and spends the money on political advertising/marketing and propaganda in an attempt to persuade gullible citizens to vote for the politician that serves the wealthy donor(s) in the PAC. Obviously PACs are undemocratic and need to be banned.

🤑 Lobbying must be outlawed or made transparent

Corporations and “special interest groups” are notorious for interfering in the political process and corrupting it in order to obtain advantages for their own selfish purposes (usually to increase the profit of a corporation or landlords or other group of people).

Lobbying is widely considered to be a form of bribery, influence peddling, and sometimes even extortion. Lobbying is so bad that it was actually illegal in the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was made legal for illegitimate purposes. If society is to be given a chance of becoming functional, lobbying must be made illegal again.

The first step in stopping lobbying is to make bribery illegal as previously explained. Additional steps are also necessary. Even if no bribes are involved, it is important to require mandatory transparency and record-keeping for all meetings between lobbyists and public officials.

📈 Politicians must be prohibited from trading in stockmarkets

In multiple countries of the world, many politicians have produced huge financial profits for themselves by performing political activity and stock trading simultaneously. Sometimes they also engage in insider trading.

For example, during a pandemic, a politician first invests in corporations that produce facemasks, and then he/she makes a new law that requires everybody to wear facemasks.

The new law causes the customer demand for facemasks to skyrocket, leading to the aforementioned corporations becoming much more profitable and important, leading to their stock price increasing, leading to the aforementioned politician making a huge profit.

Clearly, politicians must be prohibited from trading in stockmarkets and forex (foreign exchange/currency markets).

🗺️ Gerrymandering must be outlawed

Gerrymandering is the manipulation and modification of electoral district boundaries in order to artificially increase the number of votes that a particular political party receives.

In effect, gerrymandering enables politicians to pick their voters instead of the voters picking their politicians. Gerrymandering is almost always considered to be a corruption of the democratic process. It should be outlawed.

⚖️ The judiciary and the politicians must be separated

Judges (including “Supreme Court” judges) become very corrupt and biased when they are installed as servants of particular politicians or political parties. To stop the judiciary being corrupted by politicians, and to stop the impartiality of the judiciary being destroyed, it is critically necessary to make the judiciary separate and independent from the politicians.

Charles Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French judge, social commentator, political thinker, and historian. He is renowned for being the principal source of the theory of “separation of powers”, which is included in the constitutions of many countries in the world. He famously wrote in 1748:

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power is not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.

There would be an end to everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, executing the public resolutions, and adjudicating the causes of individuals.”

🧠 Politicians & presidents with dementia must be prohibited

An age limit is necessary for all politicians (including presidents). The situation is extremely absurd when a country is being run by politicians that are clearly suffering from dementia or neurodegeneration.

Alternatively, if not an age limit, then politicians must be required to pass an objective medical test that proves that they do not have dementia or neurodegeneration.

🤡 Unqualified & unlicensed politicians must be prohibited

In most countries, the law restricts the following occupations to people who have suitable training, qualifications, and/or a license:

• Medical doctors

• Surgeons

• Nurses

• Dentists

• Pharmacists

• Lawyers

• Teachers

• Electricians

• Builders

• Civil engineers

What would you think if someone proposed to change the law to allow anyone to work as a medical doctor or surgeon or dentist without any training or qualifications or examinations?

You would be understandably horrified. Imagine visiting a dentist or a surgeon and having him operate on your body even though he has not passed any examinations to prove his competence!

As you know, permitting unlicensed doctors would be madness. And yet this same madness is already occurring every year. Not for doctors, but for politicians. It is really shockingly bad that politicians are allowed to be random unqualified people.

Incompetent politicians can and do ruin the government and make our lives miserable. Just like with doctors, it is dangerous and reckless to permit unqualified politicians. We must stop this madness.

Considering how important it is to have a functional government, every politician should be required to pass the following tests:

• A test of political skills and knowledge of political principals.

• A test of the understanding of ethics.

• A test of literacy (both reading comprehension and writing skills).

• A test of reasoning and logic skills.

• A psychological health examination to detect sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.

• A physical health examination with a mandatory minimum level of health.

• Medical tests for dementia or neurodegeneration.

• Criminal background checks.

• Screening for conflicts of interest, and other checks to combat corruption.

🧟 Disruption by intellectually disabled voters must be stopped

What would you think if someone proposed to change the law to allow anyone to drive a car without needing a driver’s license?

You would be understandably horrified. The frequency of traffic accidents and fatalities would increase substantially if nobody is required to pass a driving test.

We need to introduce a voter’s license, because currently we have millions of ridiculously incompetent people making extremely stupid votes. Shockingly, many people even vote for things that hurt themselves. Yes, they even vote against their own self-interest! This is madness.

To get a voter’s license, a person would need to pass a simple test of basic intelligence. Even if this test is easy to pass, it will still be very beneficial. Here is a question that should be asked in the test:

“If you are driving a vehicle at a constant speed of 80 km/h (or mph), how far will you have driven after one hour?”

A shockingly large number of people fail to answer 80 kilometers (or miles) even though the answer is right there in the question, and no arithmetic is required.

Thus, even if the test requires only a basic level of intelligence, millions of voters will fail and be ineligible to vote. This is how it should be. This is necessary in order to enable and protect the democratic process.

Here is another example of people that cannot be allowed to vote: Whenever there is a shortage of a medication from particular suppliers, some percentage of people fail to understand that they can simply switch to a different brand/manufacturer of the exact same medication. The doctor or pharmacist explains it to these idiots:

“Yes, there is a shortage of Mediproxol and a six-week delay, but you can switch to Proprolox immediately. It contains the exact same medication and the same dosage. It’s just a different brand name.”

Even after receiving such an explanation, these idiots still fail to understand that there is no shortage of the medication that they need. They cannot understand the fact that multiple brands of the exact same medication exist. They cannot understand the difference between a shortage from all manufacturers versus a shortage from one or two manufacturers of specific brands.

It is an obvious fact of life that a democratic system cannot be successful when a large number of people with severe intellectual disability are allowed to vote and disrupt the democratic process and hurt themselves in the process.

🐑 Voting for political parties does not work

The idea of voting for political parties has proven to be a failure. The underlying problem is that political parties activate the ancient and primitive tribal mechanisms in the human brain, and then fighting, sabotage, madness, and violence ensue.

Whenever something in society needs to be fixed or improved, humans reject good proposals for no reason other than the proposal coming from a competing tribe (another political party). This is incredibly stupid behavior, but it happens frequently. It is human nature. It is scientifically known as “in-group favoritism”.

For example, in the USA, many people think, “I am a Republican” or “I am a Democrat”. Whenever one of these parties makes a good proposal, everybody who identifies as a member of the opposing tribe automatically hates the proposal without even reading it!!

It should not matter who proposed it. If it is a good proposal, then it should be supported regardless of which tribe thought of it.

It has been proven many times that humans are clearly incapable of acting reasonably and rationally when tribes are involved (“us versus them”). Two possible solutions exist:

1. Require that all politicians be independent. Abolish political parties.

2. Alternatively, allow political parties, but eliminate the system of voting for these parties and instead arrange for citizens to vote for the proposals that the parties offer.

It is also possible to implement both of the above. For example, look at how direct democracy operates in Switzerland. The Swiss system is not perfect, but overall, it operates much better (or less bad) than the current system in the USA.

🚨 Reform is mandatory and urgent

The current situation is dire all over the world. Democracy is failing everywhere. The “good” countries are collapsing while the “bad” countries (those run by dictators/tyrants) are gaining dangerous levels of power and weaponization.

The aforementioned democratic reforms need to be implemented urgently, otherwise the birthrate collapse and the economic collapse will continue to worsen, and eventually the world will collapse into chaos and another world war.