@ChrisMayLA6 This is sad, and the electionsystem should be reworked to accomodate this somehow.
It makes long term planning much more difficult, and everyone is suffering from it.
Yet another area to add to our research program! ;)
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@ChrisMayLA6 This is sad, and the electionsystem should be reworked to accomodate this somehow.
It makes long term planning much more difficult, and everyone is suffering from it.
Yet another area to add to our research program! ;)
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Ha ha, just the small problems we are going to look at:
'how to make democracy's time horizon longer?'
Great Q.; solutions perhaps less easy to find (or at least ones that might actually extend the horizon)
@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm, this requires serious out of the boxing thinking. What about continuous overlapping voting?
Instead of voting every 4 years, and risking losing to one side or another, thus losing the benfits of long term policies, what about elections for a part of the parliament every year or every second year to avoid the all or nothing approach? It would be a phased approach.
Another thing I could imagine is abolishing formal parties and the modern party structure. The parliament
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