Fun With "What If We Just..."

I have had enough of this election cycle already and am throwing my endorsement to Sweet Meteor O' Death a/k/a SMOD...

Unseriously, how could being destroyed by a giant meteor hurling towards Earth be any worse than a potential President Clinton or President Trump?

Of course, there a many possible scenarios that will come up in the next few months. One of those highly unlikely scenarios is that the Republican delegates will revolt and throw the nomination to an as-yet-unnamed rational, vote-worthy candidate. Or the Democrat delegates could revolt and throw their support to Bernie...okay, that is not a better choice.

Or, stay with me here, there is a way to go that may solve all of our problems. A choice so bold that it might just work! I would like to unseriously explore the scenario that what if we just don't make ANY choice at all...

I mean, think about it...do we really need an Executive Branch? We can still keep the Legislative and Judicial Branches just in case we need them, but I suggest that we go without any formal leader for four years and see how it works out! Yeah, yeah, I can see the pitfalls and problems that could arise; those "unintended consequences" we hear so much about, but refuse to admit that we saw coming. But we can work this all out as we go along just like Obamacare. I mean, without a leader, we can make our own decisions.

What does the President do anyway? I mean, if we are to believe that George W. was as dumb as a post and he could do it, then anyone should be able to do it, right?

Here's couple of ways to do it to start the ball rolling:

How about using a jury-like system to call on random groups of regular citizens to solve problems. Someone can just choose random citizen's names out of hat (Think: The Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter books!) to be sequestered for a short period of time to weigh the facts and decide, say, how or if to allocate money for building a bridge to nowhere. There would be no donors with agendas, no parties to be beholden to, and no influence peddling available. Frankly, I trust regular citizens to make these decisions rather than a group of elected representatives who won't/don't listen anyway. Take it directly to "the People".

Here's another issue. Let's say that The Queen of England wants to come for an offical state visit. I say, let's just use the Giant Sorting Hat of Destiny and randomly assign some citizen(s) to entertain "Her Majesty" for an evening! We don't need a Head of State to spend billions of dollars a year to entertain other Heads of State. Hey, if she doesn't want to participate then she doesn't have to come, right? [Seriously, I tried something like this when I was in Dublin and it was really fun... City Of A Thousand Welcomes I highly recommend signing up for this if you ever go to Dublin!]

If you have any other ideas for this, let's have 'em. Let your fancy take flight...