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How about having the head of state totally unelected and just inherit the job from their parents? You could keep the masses quiet by giving them some kind of party every few years or decades. I'm sure they would lap it up. |
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//How about having the head of state totally unelected and just inherit the job from their parents?// |
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I'd go along with it, but only if they hand over to the next generation when the kids are three years old. Economy gone to pot, but jelly on every street corner. War averted - the president is taking a nap etc |
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//and a pictorial dartboard at the other end//
Why bother with the dartboard? Have the candidates there themselves.. |
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//Have the candidates there themselves..// |
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Yes, but I thought FPTMG might be First Past the Machine Gun; although that might only help if there are people standing for re-election - there would be a small chance of surviving twice, but three times or more (when things start going wrong historically) would be exceptional, and in this case it could be assumed that they have an agreement with the gunner and be done for corruption. |
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//War averted - the president is taking a nap// Happened
during the Nixon administration, I believe. The president,
always a bit high strung, was suffering from insomnia, and
taking barbiturates for it. Kissinger fielded some crisis or
other without waking his boss, fearing Nixon might do
something loopy. |
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//How about having the head of state totally unelected
and just inherit the job from their parents?//
Theoretically, the advantage is that everybody knows
well in advance who the head of state is going to be. They
can be vetted, carefully, and pilloried for any faux pas,
such as insulting the government of China. Ideally by the
time they take office, they will have learned to behave in
a dignified fashion suitable for a Head of State (and
necessary, though not sufficient, for a Chief Executive). |
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"Yes, but I thought FPTMG might be First Past the Machine Gun.." |
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Hmm, the idea does have it's merits, but I think not quite so cinematic as trying to get past the thrown nets and the tridents (outsources filming to Ridley Scott)..tridents or perhaps...tripods! <idea rapidly mutates to first past the Martian gladiators>..although where to get one of them helmets with a horse-hair crest big enough to fit on the Martian might be a problem...<cancels Ridley Scott, gets on the phone to Tim Burton> |
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//the advantage is that everybody knows well in advance who the head of state is going to be.//
That what the Romanovs thought too.. |
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//helmets with a horse-hair crest big enough to fit on the
Martian// Oh, how can I resist: <link> |
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////the advantage is that everybody knows well in
advance who the head of state is going to be.// That what
the Romanovs thought too..//
Illustrates the benefits
of the system very well, thank you. 1) It was pretty clear
the Tsarvitch wasn't good Head-of-State material, and the
system prevented him taking office 2) once Russia
switched to a system where the ruler's successor wasn't
known decades in advance, look what a series of dogs they
had in charge. |
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