Building The Temple

As my Canucklehead friends cast their votes today for a brighter tomorrow, I feel like spouting off with a wee rant concerning politics hereabouts in the colonies.

How To Make A Democracy Work

For starters, I believe that each and every elected and appointed position at the Federal level of government should all work for minimum wage. Then, politicos truly would be representing the people, and nobody would even bother to campaign unless they honestly wanted to do something with whatever desired position. I am realistic enough to see that just knowing there would be years of slumming it on ramen noodles and store brand coffee would be more than enough to frighten away many a technocrat from offices of power. This would also, scale back government expenditures somewhat.

Moreso, I believe our society should wholeheartedly embrace eugenics. Specifically, we should devise a biological chastity belt, to be applied sometime prior to puberty, wherein every single new citizen (without exception) would be temporarily rendered sterile and infertile- until said citizens reach a point where they might endure certain tests designed to prove themselves worthy of resolution of the belt. Such would include psychological evaluations, IQ testing, credit checks, criminal background reports, etc. In the meantime, sexuality could be more freely explored, as neither abortions or adoptions would have a place any longer in our society. No accidental pregnancies, no unwanted children. If however, a time comes when a young couple would like to procreate, they must pass the series of tests. If persons do not wish to procreate, so beit. But to bring forth life the prospective parents must prove themselves capable as mentally, emotionally, physically, and in particular financially, able to raise and provide for a healthy and intelligent child. If unable to pass, then their genes are clearly not good enough to continue detracting from the overall pool. Rather, the ones most affected would be the ones with chronic ills in terms of either physical or psychological, criminal records, the diseased, the unemployable, the unintelligent, the non-productive.
Within three generations, or a hundred years, population numbers would decrease dramatically. This would lead to less shortages in food and housing, while slowing general use of the more limited natural resources needed by all. Less waiting in lines, too.
In addition, all welfare programs should be cut entirely, including unemployment benefits, food stamps, WIC, etc. These tax dollars otherwise wasted on enabling the lazy and ignorant could then be reapplied towards total education reform, total healthcare reform. Solve such dramatic problems at their source. Give those who need it the tools to better themselves, not mere band-aids. All medical expenses should and could then be covered by the Federal government, and all interested parties should be willing to attain at least an Associates degree on Uncle Sam's tab. No more could parties abuse the system for power; and at the other end of the spectrum- no longer could parties abuse the system for a free ride.

Through this structured downsizing of society, and the many obvious sacrifices which would need to be endured by all, we as a collective would reach an era where none are brought incidentally into this world. None would go homeless or hungry or uneducated. As a society, we would then lose our lowest caste of citizenry. This would help to make all men, created equal.

Because my final suggestion, the final step would be to discontinue all elections and appointments for Federal government offices altogether. If all men are indeed created equal, then elections should be replaced with lotteries, so that each and every adult citizen, regardless of sex or caste or religion, might equally have a chance in any department, from Congress and Senate to Supreme Court Justices to the Cabinet and the Presidency itself. No more eternal ping pong match of a two party system, each side as revoltingly obtuse as the other. If all men are actually created equal, then this notion of lottery replacing elections should not be taken offensively. And through my suggestions, we would come even closer to being one and the same as a people than even natural genetics might ever allow. Embrace it.

Welcome to the Lottery Party. I do not believe in Democracy or any established form of government, but by my own reason and experience these conclusions seem wonderfully relevant, if only in terms of going "all the way" with a Western free market Capitalistic Democracy. It is not a matter of getting things back on track.
America was never on track.