If I ruled the World

I have never managed to keep a New Year's Resolution so maybe its the time of year that's the problem and not my lack of initiative. Yeah, that's it.

I've decided to change the concept of this blog. I bet all of you out there reading this didn't even know I had a concept to begin with. Never mind, I have one now.  The new concept is: If I ruled the world.  

First blog of the new concept: How to Elect a President

After a ten thousand years of watching political ads on TV, fighting with my neighbors over if I'm going to go to hell if I put a bumper sticker on my car for a candidate they don't approve of, and trying to figure out if it really matters who I vote for..... I've come up with some ideas on how to improve the process.

First of all, there is something morally wrong with multi-billionaires getting their minions to call people on fixed incomes to ask them to send money for their campaign. Yes, I know we have all these stupid rules so anyone can run for office, not just the rich. Well look how well THAT worked.  

Instead of using donated money to transport candidates, printing bumperstickers and outragiously rude TV commercials... what if the candidates had to use that money to actually improve the country in some way. We could see how creative they can be with money. We can see where their priorities are concerning the needs of the people. We could see their problem solving abilities in action.

What if a candidate actually had to do the things they promise in their campaign! We vote for these guys and they get in office, they might even put their ideas into a bill before congress and then it gets voted down and that's the end.  I remember a book about a utopian community I read in high school where someone said that voting is just a way for politicians to pass the blame.

What if TV spots for candidates could only be the same format? No fancy expensive ads and definately no bad mouthing each other. Everytime a candidate says something bad about his opponent he should have to put a quarter in a jar.  We could get the country out of debt in one election. Everytime the media focuses on something stupid like whether the color of a candidate's hair indicates that they belong to a secret society, the media should have to put a thousand dollars into the jar.  That money could go to the offending candidate's campaign.

Ads on TV could be like station identification. They could be aired at the top of the hour and each could only be fifteen seconds.  It could be like a debate where they each have to respond to a topic and when one is aired, the opponent's would have to be aired right after. The order that they are shown would switch every other time.

The campaign should start on January 1st of the year of the election. Maybe the primaries could all be held at the same time like the general election.

After we do all those things, I'll think of some more. I'm done fixing the elections for now. Next time I'll figure out how to create world peace.