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Q&A: Ideal System of Government

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Ideal System of Government

Question

What, in the Rabbi’s view, is the ideal system of government?
I think that in a perfected world, technocracy is the ideal system.
Why only in a perfected world?
If the definition of technocracy is rule by experts who are chosen and make decisions solely on the basis of their professional abilities, then it is clear that in an unperfected world like the one we are currently in, this would not work. After all, it is impossible that a person, however upright and moral he may be, would make only professional decisions without personal, political, social, and other considerations entering into them.
On the other hand, democracy does not work all that well either, and it allows for its own self-destruction by sophisticated minority groups (such as Islam in Europe), whether through manipulation of the electoral system or through demographic takeover.
Maybe the best thing would be to combine the two methods?
That is, the government would be a government of experts, but in order to neutralize the problem of ulterior considerations, they would need to create a sophisticated system that would ensure equal representation of the population’s various divisions on the panel of experts in each field, and in that way the considerations would more or less cancel each other out. It would also be necessary to add a mechanism in which the experts would have to justify their decisions in purely professional terms, so that if there were no professional justification the decision would not be accepted, and if there were professional justification then the ulterior considerations would no longer be relevant (the context of discovery and the context of justification).
(You could call it Yanunocracy, unless the next person who develops it further steals the name for himself.)
The Rabbi does not have to address my method when presenting his own view, but I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you very much

Answer

The question is too general, and this is not the place to address it.

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