i'm not a politics geek, but i think democracy has two major pitfalls:

- in democracies with a good mix of political parties - ideologies not being able to run their full course, because the population gets fickle about the ruling party because of how their policies affected them in the past few years;

- and in democracies where one single party runs the show - tweaking of policies that result in the party garnering too much power, weakening the power of the voter (who are, again, fickle), and turning against the original ideology it was built on.

why can't we have multiple ideologies coexisting, linked together via a minimal set of pre-agreed ("universal") protocols that allow them to interface with one another but beyond which they can run their own show? members of each group - or "tribe"? - are allowed to freely move between tribes - but tribes may require a minimum membership time-span of perhaps 10 years.

in doing so, those in power in each tribe will be forced to remain faithful to the ideology they represent because they are constantly serving a changing demography of voters.

and in doing so, ideologies can run their full course, towards disbandment, or towards a balance where its members grow at a stable rate, remain at a stable number, or maintain an effective balance between outgoing and incoming members.

wouldn't this be a more accurate articulation of our claim to this planet we share and right to be different?