{"id":487,"date":"2017-03-08T23:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-10-03T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T18:27:46","slug":"putting-the-reigns-of-government-into-the-hands-of-one-person-is-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/08\/putting-the-reigns-of-government-into-the-hands-of-one-person-is-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the reins of government into the hands of one person is bullshit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems almost to be common-sense not to give political power to a single individual. \u00a0Such an individual is prone to look out for his own interest. \u00a0He can be bribed, and he can be threatened. Yet, almost the whole world keeps doing it. \u00a0And the hope is that the next person will be some kind of savior. \u00a0Never happens! \u00a0Combine this adulation of a leader with mass democracy, and you get a semi-literate Bush, then a suave snake oil salesman, Obama, and now a spoiled child, Trump. \u00a0And in Russia a rogue dictator, Putin.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed is a new Constitution with the executive exercised by a collective body of at least two persons. \u00a0Below are links to Wikipedia describing such collegial executive bodies. \u00a0The best present example of such a collective executive is Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center>Collective Heads of State<\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Directorial_system\">Directorial system<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Directory\">French Directory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Directorate_of_Ukraine\">Directorate of Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_Federal_Council\">Swiss Federal Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Council_of_Government_(Haiti)\">National Council of Government (Haiti)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triumvirate\">Triumvirate<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina\">Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diarchy\">Diarchy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duumvirate\">Duumvirate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coregency\">Coregency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consul\">Consul<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It seems almost to be common-sense not to give political power to a single individual. \u00a0Such an individual is prone to look out for his own interest. \u00a0He can be bribed, and he can be threatened. Yet, almost the whole world keeps doing it. \u00a0And the hope is that the next person will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/08\/putting-the-reigns-of-government-into-the-hands-of-one-person-is-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putting the reins of government into the hands of one person is bullshit.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}