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For 1 year in every 5 the government of every country goes on holiday. A susbstitute government is brought in in the form of an entire overseas government. Your government goes to another country where it governs; a kind of a Bussman's holiday, or a working holiday. Countries' caretakerships randomly
assigned somehow.
If I was a government or controlled what one did I would be far less likely to, say, go to war with another country if that could soon put me a position where my entire country was at war with me. Same for unfair trade deals, border disputes.
Caretaker governments can make changes at a constitutional level, so a totalitarian regime in your country could make it totalitarian for a year, but when you got back you could use your totalitarian powers to make it democratic again. At the same time, your government in a totalitarian country could make it democratic, but when the country's true government returns it finds itself bound by the strictures of a democratic constitution.
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(assuming 'you' live in a democratic country)
Logistics might be a problem.
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This idea seems to presume that democracy is always the desirable option. Whose version of democracy are we talking about? |
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I like the idea, if only for the fact it will result in a lot of assassinations of political leaders. The gene pool needs cleaning out when you realise the two white, male, Yale-educated US presidential candidates are descended from the same 17th century dandy; one Edmund Reade. |
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Yale, not that it matters |
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and why, for Gawds sake, does it matter, don't the English marry 1st cousins,( I watch BBC sitcoms) to keep property in family? Twin brothers can have opposite political views. so I think you should just drop it- like a sack of wet politicians in Times Square. |
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I'm probably not thinking clearly UnaBubba, but maybe it's true that governances that have constitutionally guaranteed reins on the power of the government are better. |
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Also everyone likes a holiday. |
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This would be no holiday - |
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I think it's arrogant to assume that you can simply transplant any form of government to supplant an existing one. |
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I'm not saying that it won't be better; rather that it won't always be better. |
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When a dictator comes to power he usually suspends the constitution of a former democracy. That will happen again, trust me. |
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Yeah, it would be difficult for the government of Brazil to govern in Lichtenstein, with having to find places to live, language difficulties, administrative differences, knowledge of local issues etc. |
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And of course it's possible that the types that would become dictators would use this system for their own ends somehow. |
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does that make this marked for deletion or just a weak idea? |
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