Non-partisan political question here.

This one is just for fun. If we took popular democracy where everyone gets a vote off the table, what do you think the best way to run a government would be?

Pure monocratic autocracy?
Oligarchy of nobility?
Oligarchy of money?
Military rule?
Limited democracy where only certain classes get a vote?

Would it be good to be one big, single nation?
An empire with numerous provinces?
A federation or confederation of semiautonomous states?
A return to city-states?

There have been so many different ways to run things over the years. It's just that right now we happen to be mostly democratic or semi-democratic republics.

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MistyCee

I'd go with some kind of proto-democracy thing I guess, like an oligarchy but some kind of avenue for trade guilds to have their say or something.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@MistyCee Trade guilds. That's interesting, because they might be kind of like a corporatocracy on the one hand, but then it could also go another route, the whole people's working class party route.

MistyCee

@Xuan12 I was thinking more of a more traditional semi feudal hereditary oligarchy thing, mabye with a monarch that answers to the council of nobles, but also wisely deals with the business class.

I read a lot of medieval fantasy as a kid, and I guess it shows.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@MistyCee What if nobles ran the countryside, and trade guilds ran the cities?

MistyCee

@Xuan12 That's pretty much how it would work, I guess. Honestly, I think balance, flexibility and stability are the most important things in government in general.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@MistyCee Flexibility and Stability 😓 Not sure how I'm going to work that one out.

MistyCee

@Xuan12 Hey, it if was easy, we'd have figured it out a long time ago. I think checks and balances, separation of powers, etc. are relly important, and frankly, a flexible government is more likely to bend than break, and thus be more stable.

I'm really a fan of limited intrusion of government into people's lives. It needs to do its thing for the common good, but it also needs to not get in the way of people doing what people do, raising their families and living their lives.