Meritocratic Republic: (this is what I believe America amd the rest of the world should be) This type of Republic is dedicated to ensuring that only those people that are qualified, or have earned a position, receive it. There is no patronage, favouritism, cronyism, nepotism, privilege or discrimination. Merit is the only criterion for success. There are no deals under the table, rigged cartels or means of corrupting the government. Government must be as transparent as possible. Just as justice should be done and be seen to be done, so should government. All of the financial dealings of the members of government, Congress and lobbyists should be a matter of public record. Unfortunately the ideals of the Republic are faded and almost lost in todays world. Where is the system in which everyone is given an equal chance to succeed? Did George Washington become the President of the United States because he was wealthy and the son of a prominent politician, or did he become President because he led the Rebel army to victory, thus earning his seat at the head of the new-born nation?It is time for a New Republic, based on Meritocracy. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, and saw how far America had deviated from his great vision, what would he do to put things right? He would unquestionably turn to meritocracy. Privilege has destroyed the Old Republic. Meritocracy is the antidote to this cancer. Democracy: Western nations pride themselves on this form of government, supposedly run by the People. They claim that the citizens of democracies are freer than those in other political systems. However, the claims of democracy and the reality are two quite different things. Democracy is a smoke and mirrors system. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were idealists seeking to establish a model for a fairer world, free of the shackles of crown and empire. Perhaps the most outstanding was Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson had this to say about democracy: A Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the People may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Interestingly, democracy isnt mentioned once in the American Constitution. One is therefore entitled to feel a little nervous when contemporary American politicians rant and rave about the benefits of a democracy, and proclaim it the best system of government on Earth. Jefferson saw its dangers, and these have never faded away. Democracy is often a dictatorship of the majority. One wonders if todays politicians have studied the Constitution or the lives of the men who placed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor at stake for the creation of the United States.The United States was actually designed to be a Constitutional Republic - note a Republic, not a democracy - bound by Law (the Constitution). The Constitution was explicitly designed to protect the rights of the people against any force, including a democratic majority, that might seek to subvert them. In this light, America is arguably not a democracy at all, just as the United Kingdom certainly is not (its a monarchy where the people are technically subjects rather than citizens). In truth, no nation on Earth is a pure democracy. Most are Constitutional Republics (like America) or Monarchies (like the UK). Additionally, the democratic elements of such nations are representative rather than direct i.e. government is by elected politicians rather than the direct democratic vote of the people on every issue. In the age of the internet, the technology now exists for direct democracy, but, unsurprisingly, no so-called democratic politician has ever suggested implementing true people power. Which must surely raise the suspicion that they are not genuinely committed to democracy at all.The Movement refers to Democracy as De-Mock-racy. Democracy is bad joke, a mockery of what it ought to be. The ordinary voter has no idea that the jokes on him. Real democracy does not exist, and, if it did, it could lead to innumerable problems. If ones opinions do not match those of the majority, they do not matter at all. Such a person would feel as if he were being subjected to a wicked tyranny.A democracy, despite the relentless propaganda of its advocates, is by no means guaranteed to be the type of system one would like to live under if one valued freedom of opinions and the freedom to live as one wishes. Many of the greatest thinkers of antiquity such as Plato and Aristotle were strenuously opposed to democracy. It has never been favoured by intellectuals who typically regard it as a dumbed-down, lowest common denominator ideology for hysterical, ill-educated mobs. Communism: Communism, and its slightly less extreme cousin, Socialism, both focus on the equality of People and the destruction of a class-based society. Communism is based on a noble idea, but is inherently flawed. This flaw is exactly what its greatest contribution is: Equality for all. The system would be amazing if everyone were honest and hardworking. Unfortunately, human nature doesnt work that way.Communism is such a delicate system that one dishonest or apathetic individual can ruin it. Picture the situation: a businessman, factory worker, doctor, lawyer, garbage man, and carpenter are all paid the same salary. The doctor who works long shifts and is under tremendous stress realizes at some point that he might as well just stop working so hard and he would be paid the same. If he worked even longer shifts he would be paid the same as a carpenter working the usual hours. The businessman realizes that it does not matter how much of the product he sells, the government-owned business will still pay him as much as a businessman that did not sell anything. So why sell? Why should the doctor work longer hours? Why should the carpenter spend his life outside toiling in the sun when he could be a lawyer, and sit in a cool office and in a comfortable chair for the same salary?Communism does not offer explicit benefits to the individual; it works for the benefit of the nation as a whole. In order to work effectively, every individual must find a passion for the betterment of the nation. One individual who does not follow suit can throw the entire system off. One bad apple spoils the barrel. Communism, despite its noble principles of human equality, cooperation and community, is a fragile system thats almost impossible to bring into practical, efficient reality.Socialism provides for a mixed economy - the State controls a significant proportion of the economy while capitalism provides the remainder. In practice, socialism has proved disastrously inefficient and anti-competitive. However, a meritocratic socialism that creates competition, that rewards the hardest working and those with the best ideas and that penalises inefficiency would provide a platform for a new type of economy where wealth is shared much more evenly amongst the people, and the extremes of capitalism are avoided.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:27:39 +0000
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