It is at home that we can make the first changes. It is inside our own countries that the true change for the better occurs.

When we have a system with an empowered president in place, we should not be surprised if that president gets away with a lot of corruption and bad decisions.

Power is a structure that demands great attention when we put a system in place.

Give all power to one, and it will end up being a medieval mess.

Give all power to 500, and it will end up being a medieval mess.

We have to look in the mirror and not at how other nations dominate other nations. The Russians have to look in the mirror. The Statelings have to look in the mirror. The people from Sri Lanka have to look in the mirror.

When we look at the nations in the world that got their shit together, it turns out that they have a good system in place for how to deal with power.

Take for instance the Scandinavian countries. No perfection, but they do have just One House (and not two and they don't have a presidency), and they vote proportionally.

Yes, they are encapsulated in a good economic larger environment, but they made themselves each others equals. They valued themselves first the way they wanted to be valued by others.

Same for other nations, thinking the Netherlands, Spain and others. But not UK, not France, not Italy, because their systems are not set up to value all of them, but to value some more than others. Or, such as Italy, to double the good system so it performs less well.

Indi.ca, we agree that we need a better world. But that has to start with the person in the mirror. People in Sri Lanka have to devise a new voting system in which they declare how they really value themselves.

My suggestion?

Get rid of the presidency. It is the fastest way to corruption and decisions that turn out to not be good for all. Must have a president? Then make him (!) a paper president like they have in Germany.