No one in today’s democratic process has enough information to make valid judgments about the qualifications and mind set of candidates. This is true on the local, state and federal levels. There is no source that provides such information in its entirety. Therefore, most vote by party line or from the influence of a candidate’s marketing prowess.
On the federal level, the electoral procedure was envisioned to take care of this problem. Todays electoral procedure has been bastardized and become not effective.
What happens if at the local, state and federal levels, voters would elect persons charged with the responsibility to evaluate candidates using a template of needed information? These proxy persons would then rate each candidate and select the one who is best qualified. The electors/proxy persons would be elected in a democratic way and ideally would not be biased towards party lines or demographics.
No question that there are a myriad of how-to issues to resolve, but it is very worthwhile to consider modifying the democratic process to reflect today’s culture and complexity.
In the second half of the 1800’s the founder of the Ba’hai faith described the approach to have a World Government for the Ba’hai faith. Some of the key components were:
The point of this approach was that by keeping the groups (at all levels) small enough, there was a good chance that when you voted, you had some awareness of the people you were voting for. Their reputation in the community would be well-known, and voters would vote for known entities.
Seems like this is a variation of the suggestion being made for this idea.