One person and one term

Instead of an obituary
Democracy needs simple rules and especially following them.

Clarity. Adherence to the rules.

Every adult citizen serves his country as a representative of the people, as an official once in his life, exactly when he feels ready for it. And if he does not want to serve the state, then he does not — no one will force him. But there is no more than one term , because within five years even the most creative personality becomes exhausted and stagnates, and in the modern world, where the main factor is extreme speed, a person changes his profession and location a little.

No one creates such an army of civil servants — professional officials as in Estonia, a cluster of lifelong civil servants bred from the grandchildren of communists and KGB agents. The director general of the agency, a former party member and municipal politician and office worker — is a lifelong civil servant who does nothing but carry out orders from unknown sources. Hordes of mediocre officials, hardened by obedience, cannot deal with the suppression of creativity, new opportunities and ideas , working against the development of the country for state funds.

In the modern world, a citizen with a higher education does not need a supervisor, does not need a middle-level manager to evaluate and hinder his every move — just as a school principal does not need a nod from the party leadership of a ministry to interfere with his work, or a hospital director needs someone from the ministry to advise and teach him. People should be given a term of office and they should do their own work during that time, exactly as well as they can.

The functioning of the state does not need to be paralyzed by incompetent controls, party interference, system puppets, and food chains created to keep mediocrity in power. I have always been very embarrassed and unpleasant to watch this immoral white-collar scheming and even criminality that begins before the next term of government — how everyone sells themselves, smears their heads, tramples on the most talented, and like a real herd of buffalo, tramples over everything that is good and valuable.

A huge number of conflicts would be avoided, ugly things would not be done, new ideas would not be rejected if the term of office was clear and unambiguous. There must be a set of rules and a structure that does not allow a person to become an animal, that leaves ugliness behind. In the case of a dictatorship, this is the fear of death, in the case of a democracy, it is following principles. One person, one term. Then we move back to the private sector.

Cliques, tribes, gangs, gangs, and factions are not democratic governance. Democratic governance is simple rules. The citizen contributes to the development of the country and knows that he has five years to implement his ideas.

Yes, there are specific areas where you have to learn the professions for a long time, but even in the police, people could move between stations, districts, counties and units in five-year increments so that the system does not become rigid and run amok, stagnate or become corrupt. Teachers could also move within their subject areas, between schools and between systems that support teaching. This five-year increment seems to be just the right amount of time, also for women who are raising children at home or acquiring an additional specialty in the meantime.

Society should allow people to move freely, develop, and respond to new challenges — not create systems to repress people and suppress their creative impulses through corruption secured by orders, prohibitions, and the protection of officials.

A society stagnated in the grip of criminal gangs has no future.