Accountability
So I had a crazy but awesome political idea tonight. Something I absolutely detest has the potential to save politics. What is it, I hear you ask? Drum roll.......
REALITY TV!!!
Yes, that's right. The same atrocious concept that brings us American Idol and other such claptrap has the potential to make the country run smoother. How? Simple.
Picture the Prime Minister's (or equivalent leader somewhere else) life. You probably don't have a very good idea what goes on in it. What's the easiest way to change that? Film it. All the time. Make "behind closed doors" obsolete. The shady backroom deal? Gone. The bribe? A thing of the past. Everyone gets to see what goes on, all the time.
It'd be different, that's for sure. I'd vote for it.
REALITY TV!!!
Yes, that's right. The same atrocious concept that brings us American Idol and other such claptrap has the potential to make the country run smoother. How? Simple.
Picture the Prime Minister's (or equivalent leader somewhere else) life. You probably don't have a very good idea what goes on in it. What's the easiest way to change that? Film it. All the time. Make "behind closed doors" obsolete. The shady backroom deal? Gone. The bribe? A thing of the past. Everyone gets to see what goes on, all the time.
It'd be different, that's for sure. I'd vote for it.
posted by Gideon Humphrey at 12:12 PM
4 Comments:
But who will watch it? It's not like CPAC is exciting TV, and I bet most of the PM's life would be meetings with civil servants full of dry details.
When the PM is talking about something exciting, it'll probably be top secret, in that the other party won't want to be filmed. If this happens with international leaders, then the choice would be to not film (which would miss the juicy bits about under-the-table deals), or the meeting won't go ahead, isolating our PM.
Unless you can convince the rest of the world to go to the same system. ;)
What I would like to see is political campaigns be filmed 24/7, and anyone who is running, even independents, get full coverage.
The point is not that it be watched 24/7. The point is if someone starts to suspect the PM of doing something evil, they can go check.
As for top secret, I don't think the PM should do anything top secret. Hence the concept. If other countries' leaders are reluctant to discuss things on camera, perhaps their lack of openness can be used as leverage to convince them.
I would like to see more campaign coverage for independents too, but there are some obvious issues when it comes to what happens when 8000 people run, for instance.
I don't really want to see Stephen Harper in his underwear or coming out of the shower...
I'd be more interested in filming a Chinese or other country politician... I think those conversations behind closed doors would be more interesting.
Not sure how exciting the Canadian political conspiracies could possibly be.
You mean you don't think Stephen has a cute butt? Yeesh. No taste.
Anyway...
It would be good for helping to deal with scandals here. The sponsorship thing, for instance.
Maybe it would be better in China, but having it happen there is even less feasible than here.
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