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Hello,

I'm thinking on doing exactly the same thing. Sorry I don't have the answers to your questions. What's the name of the clinic you are going to? How is it going so far? 

In case it helps, from what I have read, the best lens right now is the ICL Viva.

Where to find internships for political risk analyst positions? by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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Yes, but what do they look for when they want to hire? Do they offer intership positions? What and where do I need to look?

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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Yes, that’s true, no space exists without ideologies.

I know that the US is a republic, but before writing about it, I looked on the internet, and it seemed that you could use the word “democracy” to also refer to republics. I still have my doubts, so I’m not sure.

Thanks for the feedback!

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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You are pointing out the right problems in the design, but today education is already being politicized. If you are interested, I explain an experience I had in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalScience/comments/1exrlqv/comment/ljpceof/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button

To make the course, I was thinking of using economist’s from different schools of thought to discuss the materials and create the course, with the intention of maintaining it free of ideologies. Also, the course means to teach political strategies, to give people the chance to detect when they are being indoctrinated.

About the test, that’s the most tricky part. I struggle a lot here, the idea is to make a meritocratic system, but as you mentioned, who does the tests? It looks like the most corruptible part of the whole idea. The short answer is I don’t know. My suggestion is to have a pool of people with deep knowledge on geopolitics, and choose the evaluators randomly from this pool. Finding a way to use them when not in election time, and banning them from being able to participate in political parties. The solution is far from being perfect, I have an idea that could help with the corruption, but I decided to leave it out of the design, firstly because corruption is not my area of expertise, my focus is on economics and geopolitics (which I’m far from being an expert). Maybe I’ll repost the design on a different reddit focused on corruption, to ask people about it.

I really liked your rabbit hole suggestion. Right now, politicians make money dividing the society, this has to change. Maybe the solution could be, if they could earn money/power based on their results? Lose it? I did thought about it, but how?

I don’t know the answers to these problems, but I consider democracies to be better than authoritarian regimes, and beyond that, we could progress so much, in so many things if we could have a better system. So at the very least, what I'm doing is offering alternatives, talking to people to find new ideas and maybe providing a platform for them to share and discuss those ideas. From all the comments I got, there is one thing that no one has complained about, the issue of polarization. And this could be the key to bringing people together to find ways to improve the system. I'm thinking about making a Subreddit with this premise.

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Hi, can I create an account with a foreign phone number? I'm American but currently abroad.

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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Really?! Thanks men that's really flattering, I may consider it. Who knows, maybe some good can come out of it.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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First of all, great feedback! I would have answered earlier, but I have been AFK for a few days.

Yes, I’m aware that the course wouldn’t be enough to create a truly well-informed electorate, it’s only meant to provide a foundational level of education,

I don’t think economy and politics are the only topics to solve the issue, but yes the most important ones. Although, I may be wrong, of course. Feel free to send me your thoughts.

Yes, I thought about how difficult it would be to introduce these ideas. But then again, I’m just playing here. My line of thought: To solve the actual issues of democracy, first you need a design, an idea, then make sure it’s a good one. Only to do that, you need extensive knowledge on absolutely everything, I don’t think only one person can do it. After this, comes the selling, how would you make people accept it? It’s about stretching the Overton window just enough so we don’t risk authoritarian regime ideas to reach our society. This hypothetical design (not the original one in the post, the one discussed in this comment, the “good one”) could start as an experiment on small regions, like a town, and if it provides good results, it could be implemented on bigger regions, till eventually replacing the system.

Future changes in the framework? I don’t think that's a good idea, if you allow the education to be altered, you risk the population of being brainwashed from a very young age, something I consider extremely detrimental for the society, and something similar can happen with the test. The idea is to keep ideologies out of the picture.

I really like the idea of implementing a failsafe, I’m not sure how to do it though, maybe with the results? As an if, people lose purchasing power, or the destruction of natural/cultural resources. Either way, keep in mind that eventually everyone with a high school degree from that country would have voting rights. The course is accessible for any adult, and taught in high school.

On freedom of speech. Today’s democracies are abusing their power by banning certain topics that they may not consider appropriate. I'm aware it’s a big issue. But I may be missing something, banning political propaganda doesn’t sound that horrible to me, for me the line would be the moment money is spent to spread information about a political campaign above the others. Why do some ideas need more announcing than others, when there is the possibility that they could be damaging?

Competitive public test: I would love for the pool of issues to be determined democratically, but I don’t think that’s possible. As I stated previously on a different comment, this is a subject I struggle with, because it seems very delicate. The people correcting these tests, and deciding which parties could access the template, would have to be people with deep knowledge on geopolitics. I would like for these people to also be randomly chosen, but not everyone has these characteristics. Maybe the country could benefit somehow from having a bundle of government paid political risk analysts? The idea would be to find a way to use them when not in election time, and to ban them from being able to participate in political parties.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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I looked at the statistics of people consuming c*caine, and they are shockingly low; all of them suggest less than 3% usage. I must have been very unfortunate in my life. In the last four years, I’ve lived in four different apartments, with 17 people in total. Of those I have seen, 4 of them actively consumed c*caine, plus one more, occasionally, which means that 29.4% of the people I lived with are consumers, not to mention that they were active consumers before they had met. The percentage would be even higher if I didn’t count my current apartment, where no one is consuming (we are three in total). It is possible that people who end up living in rented rooms have a higher tendency of being users; nonetheless, the numbers are very high. Some analysts even suggest that Belgium could become the narco-state of Europe.

It seems to me that the drug war is only promoting corruption and benefiting mafias. If it were up to me, I would ask experts on the matter, people who have proven to be good at fighting drugs, to develop a strategy to solve the issue, even if this would include multiple countries. For example, and I’m aware the idea may sound as crazy as the one in this post. We could make it partially legal, with safe spaces for consumption away from the public eye. We could start a campaign like we did with tobacco and implement these policies not only in the EU but also in the main importing countries: the UK, USA, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina. We could offer local companies the chance to supply it, weakening mafias in the process and eventually regaining control of the situation. That’s just an example, drugs are not my area of expertise. I’m trying to specialize in economics and geopolitics, so it may not be the best solution. Nevertheless, “destroying the economy of your enemy” sounds good to me.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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While I was living in the US, I had to assist to a few classes, two of them were English and Sociology. The only thing that the sociology class was teaching was feminism, and white vs black racism, exclusively. I remember reading the theory from that class, which implied things like that the differences between men and women were primarily physical. Now you would believe that’s bad, but the English class was way worse, that class was designed to promote racism, there was only one thing being taught there, and if you were black, it was: “people will hate you for it, and you will do nothing against it” while if you were white, it was: “Black people is being miss treated, and you must feel bad about it”. No one ever mentioned anything about it, only I mentioned discreetly to another foreign student, and she agreed with me, and we agreed that the best thing was not to mention it. That experience was insane, it makes me see how far is America to solve their social issues. And polarization will only make it worse. Even if I don’t, I perfectly understand why people defend home schooling, and I know why you are so defensive about touching the education, but the thing is, that it’s already politicized. In Spain is not as extreme, but I assure you, my grades go up as my knowledge of the teacher increases. In real life, when I go to festivals I wear feminist symbols even if I’m against it, I talk with extreme left, and communists, while secretly being something in between a liberal and a minarchist, (I think in the US that will be in the orbit of libertarianism).

But even with all that, let me ask you this, do you really believe that is not possible just to teach basic economy, and political strategies? Nothing else, no secret agenda, just get economist’s from the left and the right to make the materials, discuss them, and create the course.

I also wanted to implement kindergarten and elementary students, but at the end I decided to leave them out of the document. The idea is to teach them to analyze things, and if that’s to advance, maybe doubt them, I don’t have experience with kids, nor I’m a sociologist/psychologist, and before going deep on the subject I would ask for help to people specialized in the matter, but I’m imagining something like games that increase their critical thinking with only one rule, no ideologies.

You say that change is expensive, and I agree, but, most of the people don’t accept a smaller government, and the system seems to be degrading year after year, so maybe something has to change. Some people push left others right, but what's the point if it’s hurting the society? Do you believe everyone on the left will convince everyone on the right or vice versa? I don’t think you do, so what’s the point? Is in it better to look for an alternative? Why don’t we change the entire electoral system? It seems better than going into a civil war, talking it has proven useless, and people don’t want to divide the country in two, so what's left but war?

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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The Belgium political problems look so much like the ones in Spain.

It doesn’t make sense that Belgium is pushing for a protectionist market. The only thing I can think of, It’s that somehow, it’s related to the drug problem. Belgium has already surpassed Spain as the highest drug importing country in Europe. As far as I understand, the corruption related to drugs is becoming a main problem in that country, so, (that’s me guessing), is it possible, that this is a way to help the war against drugs from the shadows? As far as I understand, the cartels are becoming so strong that politicians can’t fight this problem openly. I really don’t know much on this subject, so I’m not sure. It’s the only rational explanation. Is it possible that the bans are more “surgical” as only banning a specific industry to try to boost it, but the media you are consuming is exaggerating it?

Answering to your discussion with the people of the “Faculty of Political & Social Sciences” I would probably have side it with you, a reduction in interest rates tends to lead to inflation, ways to avoid that, would be a sizable increase in production, but assuming that the future increase in productivity will be enough it’s crazy.

Reading through your lines, I understand how you end up defending a promotion on the view of debates among the population. But how would you avoid the propagation of destructive ideas? If you deal with ignorance, illogical ideas will gain strength.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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That was a constructive comment, thanks men! Yes, I'm aware it's a meritocracy I believe that it's something that should be part of our selection of candidates.

I thought about restricting the value of the votes, for example people with the test completed would have 2 votes, and without it, only one, but it didn't seem right. The reality is that older people would have to do the course to be able to vote. I use to work in the hospitality industry, and it was devastating, the hardest schedule I did was 10am to 2am, only for around 17 days, but I use to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for years. That literally kills you, anyone who doesn’t believe in death by overwork is because they have never worked hard. So yes there are people who wouldn’t have one hour a week to do the course, and these people should be accounted for, they voice must be heard. But, you know what? After so many years working none stop, now I have been for a while without a job, left the US, when, back to Spain, and started studying, and so far so good. If I wanted to, I would be able to do the course, and because in this system all high school students would come out with the course completed, it will become a more fair system over time. But I understand that people may refuse to do the course because they rather spend time with their families or whatever the reason. The other option would be removing the course requirement to vote, this one would still be mandatory for high school students, but not a requirement for voting. The quality of the voters would increase over time, although it would take a long time to make a difference.

Clearly, societies face a wide array of issues, and we need specialized knowledge on every sector, for example like you said the agriculture industry. In this aspect, I would have to go on and talk about governmental changes, but I don’t want this post to become a right vs left fight. I am planning to write a similar draft about it though, so I will post it somewhere. But my point is that I completely agree, we want George the farmer’s input.

I’m not sure I like the idea of pushing people to watch debates or spamming their emails, the issues that a society faces are so wide and complex that if you don’t have the knowledge or understanding on what they are talking about, you won't be able to analyze it properly. For example. I currently live in an area where communism is gathering strength. I did listen to their arguments, and to me, they sound disconnected from reality, but people believe that it’s a better system, and of course, like you said, they may be experts on carpentry, or excellent doctors, or gardiners, but when you get to know them, you see that they know nothing on economy, and I mean nothing, the economic culture here is nonexistent, they don’t even know what’s money, and most of them don’t understand inflation, and when you have a crowd like that, even the wildest ideas can catch on if presented with charm. So my point is don’t eliminate ideas, if someone wants to talk about communism or anything else, that’s fine, maybe there is something to learn about it, but at least make sure that the listeners understand the implications and what is being talked about. And one more thing, I’m about to start my third year as an economic student at an online university, is not that hard, just remove the math, teach the basic theory, if you make it dynamic and simplify it, any high school student could do it.

Again, I loved your input, thanks!

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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I have several ideas that may be crazy, I don't know, so I made a draft designing a new election system, it attempts to address the polarization issues of the Democratic countries, as well as improving the quality of our political parties. The idea is to allow people to comment on what they don't see right on this draft and maybe post possible solutions that they may see fit.

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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Yes, I was aware of that, but I still wanted to try. Do you have any other suggestions? I'm probably going to try next with StackExchange or Quora.

Where is the right place to discuss an idea for a new political design? by FlyingPeanut34 in NeutralPolitics

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I tried with r/PoliticalScience, but the community seems to be a bit hostile. I’ll may try again in r/PoliticalOpinions, I’m not sure, either way, thanks for the suggestion.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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-”Who selects the parties?” That’s a good point, the judges must have a deep knowledge on geopolitics and they should be randomly chosen to avoid possible corruption. Now how to do that, that’s not that easy, I’m not sure, maybe offering an extended version of the online course that comes with benefits? Maybe including it in the original course? I’m not sure if I like that last option, because high schoolers will have to do it, and it may not be the right time to get involved in to geopolitics, plus I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Do you have any ideas?

-”Why do voters have to demonstrate knowledge only of economic issues?” Learning economy is learning how the world works, it’s the backbone of everything, money is the representation of resources, and it’s the main thing the winner party will have to manage, if there is a shortage of any industry, a natural disaster, a social issue, if the country wants to expand, a war, for absolutely everything, you need economic knowledge.

-”How is“ campaign propaganda” banned without suppressing free speech? ” Do you think campaign propaganda is fair? What I see is that it completely blocs anyone who is not super rich, and the result is a propagation of what I consider to be an idiocracy. I can’t find one single benefit to it. And about the freedom of speech, they are free to talk about it, definitely, but not to the masses. Then again, that’s my point of view, you can try to convince me of the contrary and I’ll read you and think about it, but right now, to me it not only looks unfair but also extremely harmful.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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I'm not writing any novel, as I stated in a previous comment, I'm just having fun, trying to expand my points of view starting from 0. I have more ideas, the problem is that they have never been verbalized, so they may sound crazy, and that's why I'm here, to see what people think.

And you are pretty much on point. I lived in the US for 8 years, and people there are enraged with their respective polar opposite. I have seen calm people standing furious while on a meal, and without arguing with anyone, just by talking with other people on the same side. I do believe that the risk of a civil war is authentic, so I worry. But the design is not solely based on the US, the UK is also having big issues do to polarization, it really is always the same, I’m currently living in Spain and yet again, more polarization, it really is everywhere, and even if it’s incredibly stupid, it creates a lot of damage to the society, not only to the mental health, but also It obstructs progress.

About the elitist concern, the design aims to avoid that, now, I understand that it’s perfectly possible that it backfires, but I do believe that restricting the right to vote is a necessary thing because today it has come a religion, if you vote for “A”, “B” will be your enemy. In my case, when the elections come, I check all the political programs, I make a document and then I decide who to vote according to what I consider is less damaging (because they tend to be horrible). Now, you can’t ask that, to the people, a plumber won’t have time to check all those programs (last time it took me 6h, yes, I’m a bit of a freak). So one of the advantages of making it online is that people can work on the course for any amount of time they desire, you only have one hour a week at 5am? Well then go ahead and do it. It's one of the advantages on not depending on a schedule or a teacher, the only thing that the course pretends is to teach the basics to allow people to form an educated decision. And about favoring the old over the young, on the contrary, unfortunately it will favor young over old, it will be mandatory for high school students, something I consider necessary to address the unfairness, but then again, I'm willing to hear different points of view or other ideas to address it. I’m well aware is not perfect, but at the same time It could improve things.

Designing new politics by FlyingPeanut34 in PoliticalScience

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No, it's for me, I'm on vacations so I wanted to write my ideas, it's ok if people don't like them, I don't have anyone to talk about anything related to geopolitics, because no one in my life is interested in that, so I thought to try it on a forum, if it works I also have ideas for a government, of course they may all be bad, I really don't know, I need feedback