If they really have a reelection it is quite likely that the Pirate Party will win. That would be awesome!
> Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties in different countries. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy and participation in government, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (open content), information privacy, transparency, freedom of information, anti-corruption and network neutrality.
Politicians are mainly meddling chumps. Like new managers constantly ordering sweeping changes but hardly aware of how things are implemented on the ground.
Inventing feel good stats which are juked.
The old BBC series Yes, Minister is the most realistic depiction of politics.
Blind trust of authority is all too commonplace; the default should be mistrust of those who wield power.
Otherwise legal and permanent secretaries ( civil servants ) draft laws and parliaments ( congress ) debate and amend them.
I conceed the executive branch does propose the policy and ideas on which they are based.
I am all for legislatures ( parliaments ) and elected representatives but the executive ( govt. ) seems to increasingly be at odds with the citizenry and serve those who fund their election or pad their retirements with directorships.
Sure have govt. just much less of it - there are far too many laws and far too many bad laws.
Fewer better, well considered laws, informed by public debate.
Really watch a couple of episodes of Yes Minister, that shows how it works not how they say it works.
In Iceland, no laws nor articles of constitution need to change to do this. All we need is a parliament majority that does it.
Which set of algorithms do you want to vote for?
I truly think there is something there though, something from the open-source process that can make government more efficient and productive, but it's probably not in the way we are thinking. It probably looks less like software maintenance and more like science, dare I say political science. Crowd-source solutions and organize experiments across counties and states in a way that's data driven, not politics and need-for-reelection driven.
No AI necessary.
The Independence Party is center-right (very conservative for Iceland) and was formed in 1929 advocating for full independence of Iceland. They haven't changed their name since. It's been one of the four major political parties of Iceland since inception and more often then not the largest; every head of the party has been prime minister at some point (except the current one; that might change in the next week as they are in coalition with the just-resigned prime ministers party and there is a void to fill). In short you could say that they are pro-business and for smaller government. The overview here [2] is a good start, but you can go straight to the source here (english below) [3].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_the_Republic_of_Ic...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%E2%80%93Icelandic_Act_o...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_%28Iceland%...