tycho wrote:Politics must be taken to the free market where value can be exchanged.
I hope next time we'll be discussing the income packages/ voter/time that leaders are offering. And each leader is allowed to quote his price.
I can imagine some politicians will ask for zero pay while in office.
Parties will be 'serious' institutions, and politics will be a delicacy.
On the contrary, mature issue andpolicy based politics are quite drab. Italy went to polls a few days ago, right? Yet many are oblivious to the fact because the central issues are the poor state of the Italian economy, public debt with the euro and EEC thrown in the mix. Its like a macro economic debate. We prefer colourful politics, with songs, proverbs and smears even though it is very bad for us. Kenyans love their dose of entertainment.