Mainly Poms they chose the new territories in America.
After a while the descendent's of these extremists decided that their group of settlements were not being served well by rules and regulations (as well as taxes) coming in from England and formed a new, independent country.
As a gimmick to attract workers to that country they adopted a novel measure, they would let all free men have a say in who made the rules and regulations.
This of course was not a new idea.
Greece and Rome had both tried it.
Greece of course promptly fell over and Rome is now simply the seat of one of the myriad of Mediterranean superstitions around at the time, no longer even a country.
England and France had both had their go as well with varying degrees of success.
Of course the Americans were bright enough to see some of the pitfalls and just allowed the free men the right to elect those who elected the leader as well as two groups of advisers who had to get their ideas past that leader before they became law.
This system has worked pretty good although a recent failure of the system may yet bite the world on it's ass.
This failure was almost certainly caused by two changes to the original idea. A simple “crack the door open and the whole bloody flood cascades through” effect.
Those two changes were to include every man not imprisoned in the description “free” and then to admit women to the group.
I'm sure about now people are saying “Fair enough, that's progress and they have a right to be included”.
Why?
As an aside while thinking about this I have tried to think of actual developments, inventions etc. that women have given to mankind. I don't mean me-too type things but new ideas and innovations and the women who have given these.
Apart from Curie I'm buggered if I can think of one.
This rant however is not about that, it is about that first change – giving all people not incarcerated in a penal institution or disqualified for illegal activities the vote.
Why do we give the senile, the infirm, the outright lazy, the too stupid to better themselves enough to feed themselves, the too subservient to think for themselves the right to select rule makers.
We don't give children that right and many if not most of the above have mental processes lower than double digit aged children.
What is so great about this thing called democracy? This idea that every adult should be allowed a say in who makes the rules?
It creates more problems than it solves
Having given the matter some thought a benevolent dictatorship is the best form of governance, cutting the politicking down completely and doing away with compromise.
I doubt that the majority are bright enough to consider this option so we are almost certainly stuck with this democracy farce but surely within that democracy steps must be taken to limit just who has the chance to vote
We make people get a license to drive a motor vehicle, shoot a gun, get married, sell booze, all activities that can cause only localised catastrophes while we allow all free adults to, without training or proving competence to vote to decide who leads the country.
All registered voters should sit and pass a vote license test prior to being allowed to vote, the test being re administered at regular intervals.
Giving everyone the vote, without ensuring they are competent to use that vote is simply bloody stupid.
Once again bloody extremists have buggered up the world.
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