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one thing we can both agree on is that we are pro governments that are run efficiently in that they serve their people well. we just have different ways of perceiving how this can be done.
so why not deliberate while putting mandates to get things done? lets say me and you were co-founders of a political party, even though we are at the ends of the so-called spectrum- lets pretend we're pals and in our daily lives we get along great. ultimately for me and you the important goal is that we erect a society thats worth living in, a society which lets people be free and yet protects them from dangers that have been ever-present (starvation, disease, the elements and whatnot) and dangers which are really just the result of our own mis-interaction (e.g. crime).
how can we make this work? for a landmass that houses some three hundred million people, no less!
and dont say "well ok we create a system where (_insert socialist policies here_) make everybody happy"
what should we do?
im going to say you should make the first suggestion, and anybody who wants to hop in and say something obviously this is what this board is here for- but if you ask me the very first practical and rational thing we could do is create working examples of societies under different policies and see which one would be best suited to our goals- thats not an easy thing to do because that would require living breathing human beings who may or may not want to consent to living in the kind of society we want to test.
but i digress, what do you have to say?