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How should the American people structure the government to prevent another Trump-like president (or worse) from ever getting elected as president in the future? (lemmy.world)

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How do we structure the government to prevent a another nutcase president from being elected?

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[–] cathray@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

There is a great book called "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander, et.al. that came out in 1977 and that contains everything you need to do to solve almost all of today's problems. Relevant for your question are for example the patterns:

Independent Regions: "[...]the government of a region becomes less and less manageable with size. [...] We believe the limits are reached when the population of a region reaches some 2 to 10 million."
Community of 7000: "People can only have a genuine effect on local government when the units of local government are autonomous, self-governing, self-budgeting communities, which are small enough [...]"
Local Town Hall: "Local government of communities and local control by the inhabitants, will only happen if each community has its own physical town hall which forms the nucleus of its political activity"
Necklace of Community Projects: "The local town hall will not be an honest part of the community which lives around it, unless it is itself surrounded by all kinds of small community activities and projects, generated by the people for themselves."

Generally, almost all of our problems stem from our isolation from the society that surrounds us, which in turn stems from the architecture of our cities and houses. This book shows how to not do that.