Oh how I agree!

@MissKathleen
Hmmm
I guess that’s true - get rid of the electoral college?
Hold all national primaries on the same day?
Publicly funded elections?

@MissKathleen Not in the US system. Where there is one man, one vote for all political positions government, as mainly practiced in Britain, then democracy is more true.

@Petter Maybe democracy has size limitations. In case of an ancient Greek city state the free, voting citizens knew each other. Just a few hundred or thousand people. Today's countries are just too large. We vote for candidates who we don't really know.

@zesty Hence the British system, where candidates stand for particular constituencies, determined by their population size as much as possible. Local committees for each area approve who will be the candidate who actually gets put forward for election That way people have a better chance of knowing their representatives. Unfortunately, there is not yet a residency requirement, so slum areas are not well represented.
Maybe the old Corsican system works best. The candidate with the least holes in his body is declared elected!!

@Petter Hmmm "the candidate with the least holes in his body". Kinda excludes women! We have more holes.

@zesty But the extra hole is a delightful feature. Mind you, I have two extra holes in my body, both caused by the same 9mm lump of metal - and I wasn't even standing for election in Corsica.

@Petter Yes, delightful. What happened to you?

@zesty A policeman who I came across sleeping on duty, tried to kill me. I was unarmed, but tackled him after being shot, got his revolver off him, then drove myself to hospital, pumping blood rather copiously.
This was in Kenya, in 1983. One of the many times I could have been killed.
I really must continue my autobiography.

@Petter Amazing story. Glad you made it!

@zesty Not as glad as I am! If we ever met I could you more.
The start of my bio is here:-
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