Leading questions:

Representative vs Direct Democracy?

Unitary or Federal?

Presidential or Parliamentary?

How much separations of powers should there be? In presidential systems, such as the United States of America, there is often deadlock between the executive and legislature. In parliamentary systems, the head of government is elected by legislature, therefore, there is practically no deadlock as long as theres is majority support of the executive in the legislature (although, there can still be courts to determine constitutionality of policiss). Would you prefer more checks and balances, but can also result in more deadlock, or a government more easily able to enact policies, for better or for worse?

Electoral method? FPTP? Two-Round? Ranked-Choice/Single-Transferable Vote? What about legislature? Should there be local districts? Single or Multi member districts? Proportional-representation based on votes for a party? If so, how should the party-lists be determined?

Should anti-democratic parties be banned? Or should all parties be allowed to compete in elections, regardless of ideology? In Germany, they practice what’s called “Defensive Democracy” which bans any political parties (and their successors) that are anti-democratic. Some of banned political parties include the nazi party.

How easy or difficult should the constitution br allowed to be changed? Majority support or some type of supermajority support?

Should we really elect officials, or randomly select them via sortition?

These are just some topics to think about, you don’t have to answer all of them.

Edit: Clarified some things

  • ku10@kerala.party
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    Like Github PRs on an open source project. Anyone should be able to write an RFC or POC. It gets discussed publicly and implemented.

    Elected representatives can be maintainers

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      Uhh, GitHub is an authoritarian dictatorship. You might write as many PR, RFC or whatever you want. But a repository manager has absolute power and zero duty of care with you. They can just ignore you, reject your proposals and do whatever they want, and you have no power or recourse in the slightest to do anything about it except complain.

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      1 year ago

      Like Github PRs on an open source project

      Github is a git hosting service, PRs are an inherent feature of git, though done traditionally via email.

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        Right. I’m specifically referring to the open nature of GitHub PR discussions