01-30-2019, 02:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-30-2019, 02:42 PM by Bill the Piper.)
(01-30-2019, 01:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Where Parties do not compete at the polling place, political parties are nothing more than tools of command and control. This is obvious enough with fascist, Nazi, Communist, and Ba'ath Parties. At the extreme the German Nazi Party was little more than a syndicate of organized crime once in power.
100% agreement
I was thinking of a system without any parties, a non-partisan democracy run more like a scientific institute. Individuals could still compete, but only on the basis of personal competence. Such a system has existed in the short lived Republic of Texas (Western) and today in Canadian province of Nunavut (inhabited mostly by Eskimos) on the Polynesian island of Niue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partis...overnments