It’s hard to get short-term governments to implement and secure long-term policies, so here we are:
- housing price crisis
- retirement pyramid schemes
- climate maladaptation
- refugee waves
- arms races
So many big issues impossible to solve without a long-view planning body.
Parliamentary governments are executive, not planning bodies. Are we waiting on the EU to solve all the major problems?
On the other hand, the future of democracy needs as much a bottom-up direction as the top-down one. We need to take the following initiative overdrive and not kept in a basement: online voting on direct petitions to the parliament.
Not a random website pulling traffic and serving little purpose. A government-run and monitored avenue for direct citizen participation in democracy.