Impulse

When the admin­is­tra­tion first started re-justifying the Iraq war as an effort to spread democ­racy, they made it sound so easy. The rhetoric made it seem like bring­ing democ­racy to a new coun­try was as sim­ple as remov­ing the old gov­ern­ment and hav­ing an elec­tion. Uninstall; rein­stall — just like soft­ware! So since installing democ­racy is just as easy as installing Windows or Linux, I thought I’d jump on the band­wagon and write this help­ful instal­la­tion guide for Democracy 1.0.

System Requirements for Democracy 1.0

• Will of the People set to desire demo­c­ra­tic government.
• A long, cul­tural tra­di­tion empha­siz­ing lib­erty and the value of the individual.
• Communications infra­struc­ture
• Literacy (min­i­mum); Education infra­struc­ture (recommended)
• All mili­tias in the sys­tem are com­pat­i­ble with cur­rent set­ting of Will of the People (highly recommended).

Installation notes

1. The fun­da­men­tal appli­ca­tion of Democracy is to enact the Will of the People. If the Will of the People is not set to democ­racy, Democracy 1.0 will not boot and the sys­tem may be per­ma­nently damaged.
2. Do not install Democracy unless all sys­tem require­ments are met. Installing Democracy with­out all sys­tem require­ments could seri­ously dam­age the cred­i­bil­ity of the IT pro­fes­sion­als seek­ing to install this appli­ca­tion as well as inter­fere with nearby net­works. Permanent sys­tem dam­age may occur that may pre­vent Democracy from ever run­ning on that system.
3. For best results, the pop­u­lace must trust in the newly installed elec­toral sys­tem. They must all agree to abide by the out­come of the elec­tion and trust that, though they may dis­agree with the out­come, they can change the deci­sion in the next election.

Installation instruc­tions

1. Make sys­tem require­ments have been met.
2. Once all sys­tem require­ments met, sys­tem will reboot and auto­mat­i­cally look for instal­la­tion pro­gram. The instal­la­tion process pro­ceeds auto­mat­i­cally and often run unat­tended. (See case stud­ies of the USA, UK, and most European sys­tems). For insured suc­cess, fol­low the remain­ing steps.
3. Provide elec­tion train­ing, orga­ni­za­tion, over­sight, and vot­ing machines (with paper audit trails).
4. Lift any embar­gos and fos­ter trade and invest­ment in the new sys­tem so that the new gov­ern­ment has plenty of resources available.

Related posts:

1. Technology and democ­racy hand in hand
2. Health care’s moun­tain of paperwork
3. Thumbing the scales of democracy
4. Pre-election thoughts