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We should have elections with no candidates. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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All us WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) countries seem to spend a really embarrassing amount of time talking about the pointless minutiae surrounding our candidates for office and their personal lives.

We are also prone to backing very crap candidates based on personality, rhetoric, appearance ie: things that have nothing to do with being a good executive or legislator.

I think we should ban names from the election process and just have each party submit their ideas in writing and let people vote based on those submissions.

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And also with a randomized name/logo that changes at every election, so there's no more "i vote for that party because my family voted for them since 200 years ago, and i will still vote for them even if they want to do immoral things"

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

What stops them from just saying what people want to hear, then doing what their party wants? There's no accountability because you wouldn't know that the party that lied last election is saying the same thing this election.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Double blind democracy!