Cafe of Broken Dreams by John scientific terrorist in action

We Can Work Without an Elected Government

A recent lesson from the Czech Republic shows that the republic can work without an elected government . What else, it can work even better.

On 24 March 2009, during the Czech presidency of the European Union, Topolánek's cabinet did not gain confidence in a parliamentary vote of no confidence this resulted in creation of new caretaker government and after 4 months they have made even better job than previous elected governments.

The reason for this is simple, they do not have to make political correct decisions. All around the globe governments are increasing their debts, accepting economical packages in order to boost the economy, or saving failed companies. But caretaker government said clear no, the debt was to high so we had to make savings. The result was that every resort had to cut their budgets for 10 – 20%. That means everything – education, healthcare, military, …

Can you imagine some political party to make such a decision? When constant making of new debts caused the crisis, those populist governments are still making new debts but not in the Czech Republic simply because there are no great “economy savers” politicians in office.

Once again I was thinking about the “Lottery Democracy”, a system where are representatives not elected, but drawn in a lottery. Of course even in this system would still exist a corruption, but we would be free from populism at all and with some bonuses from good economic output we could also greatly motivate our "leaders”.

Reminds me that after all Socrates was obviously right, 2500 years ago.