Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, […]
I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?
Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it
Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.
Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.
Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.
How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.
The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you
Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.