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We should have elections with no candidates. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 3 months ago by JamesStallion to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean. Not all. In lots of parliamentary democracies people vote far more for the policies/party than the name.

We don’t even have a head of the executive in Switzerland like you do with your president in the US. It’s a 7 person council.

[–] JamesStallion 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am not American, but I think my statement can be said to be true of the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain and Italy at the very least since these are countries whose recent elections I have followed a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So except for Spain and Italy, the few countries that have single member electoral districts which means you vote for candidates instead of party lists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Your contradicter is right. You're basically describing the list system, which is the purest form of PR and pretty common in Europe. You vote for a platform and a list, not for individuals.