“Fairly elected,” I would dispute that.
National political parties have a monopoly on the power of naming their nominees, which is fair and just. The problem for the citizenry/opportunity for the fascists is that “most” of the citizenry stumble around in consumer mode, of a free market. Consumers have no responsibility to produce anything, or dirty their hands in such activities; they only need money and they can choose to buy whatever works. Same with politics: voters have no responsibility to write laws or craft policy, we’ll just vote for whoever is best for the job.
But to get on that ballot, the best candidate has to be nominated by the national party, and that gang constitutes the top 2% most busy-body indignant radical extremists you’ve ever had the worst misfortune to be thrust amongst. Politics truly is a hell-hole. Or, you could run as independent, and you’ve got about ~0% chance of succeeding.
None of this is a problem! The true problem lies with the ballot itself: nobody has the power to “vote down” any candidate, no matter how corrupt or unqualified or discredited or blatantly incompetent. The ballot is strictly limited to one vote, of support only, for one of the listed candidates.
But free market consumers never join political parties and exercise practically zero control over who gets nominated, and we wind up with these elections where every candidate is unqualified and there’s nobody worth voting for, they are all radical extremists (or beholden to them) and it is a guaranteed fact one is gonna be elected, because elections never have “negative” votes.
So one idea, and sure it’s “my” idea (as if ideas have owners somehow), to change the ballot back to the “true” ballot, which is the Plebiscite.
Because yes, every single law goes through Roberts Rules of Order which puts them to a referendum in which every representative votes Yes or No on the law. It’s the fundamental principle of democracy, being able to vote Yes of No.
So what is this ground-shaking idea, it’s nothing really. It takes a normal ballot and puts a second column of boxes beside each name, and voters still only put one X in one box.
The other column is “vote against” the candidate, and people would only use this if they found themselves in that unlucky position of having nobody they can support.
Like let’s suppose you’re starving in North Korea and you’re given a ballot and only one guy is allowed to run for office, yet you’re dissatisfied with starving to death all the time. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to X that “other” box, the one that kicks Kim out and lets somebody less corrupt have a chance at governance for once?
Or there’s some famous b-movie star who only “acts” like a real person, has no actual real-life experience doing anything, but just coasts along on their fame? Say, what if there was a mechanism by which “no such thing as bad publicity” all of a sudden isn’t true anymore? You know, like if you could target that famous good-for-nothing with a vote of rejection instead. Imagine if we had competent leaders for once.
Anyway it’s at r/PlebisciteBallot on Reddit, or there’s a 7-min elevator pitch. You don’t need to support the idea! Sneering ridicule is perfectly acceptable, too.
https://youtu.be/1WiPbLgMHSQ