Part Five

This will be easier said than done. I have in mind a process of how it would work after implemented, but not how to initially implement it. No matter, but we would need more than two or three to be effective.
My idea is to base this on the principle of municipal supervisors. To be fair, we could name them the Presiding Council. What is now the Presidents mansion, the white house, could be turned into the Presiding Council Offices and Meeting Chamber.
Here is the difficult part. I am thinking of five members of the Presiding Council, each elected to one and only one five year term. Every year one of the Presiding Council members would be replaced. This would ensure a smooth turnover with no radical and sudden changes in executive branch policy like we have now every four or eight years.
We would have to divide our country into five specific regions in order to have the entire country fairly and evenly represented, with each region electing its Presiding Council Member from someone who actually resided within the boundaries of that region. The regions could beset along certain states borders and labeled, say, Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest(to include Alaska), and Southwest(to include Hawaii). To be fair, only actual states could vote in this election and not Territories or D.C.
Ours is a very large country, both in geographic area and population along with our ethnic diversity. There has to be some way to fairly represent all of us while at the same time retaining control of our government.
World history has shown us that over the course of human history a government, no matter how well intended at its onset, will eventually assert itself over the very citizenry that formed it for their own protection if that citizenry does not maintain control over that government. We humans are steeped in monarchial traditions and this shows even today in our businesses by having one individual riding roughshod over a mainly impotent board of directors. Monarchs were military oriented and we need to remove ourselves from that framework.
Our own current political system has been outgrown in area, population and ethnicity and for that reason it cannot fairly represent all of us. We have allowed the three different branches to grow dangerously close together by political party affiliations and through executive appointments. It is for that reason that I have proposed these changes so that the three branches can be more separated and therefore have the check and balance system be as effective as our forefathers intended. That is also why I have proposed bringing our politicians down from their ivory towers to our level, so as to remain in touch with the common American Citizen. In so doing, keeping the average American citizen in touch with the workings of the politicians that we hire by vote to run the business of our government.
I know that these ideas are not perfect. We humans are not perfect, and nothing that we will ever build – be it political systems or some form of machinery – will ever be perfect. I do not believe we ever were intended to be perfect. So there it is. My idea as to how to fix the very broken political system that we now have in Washington D.C.
So, whaddaya think?