DemocraTV

I wonder what would happen if we turned our presidential electory process into a reality tv show. It'll be the first of its kind in the planet. Like any democracy, we'll still be able to choose our leaders, but we'll be choosing in style, via text or phoneline, send VOTE <space> VOTERSID <space> CANDIDATE'S NAME and send to 2333, may chance ka pang manalo ng bagong government contract! And what better way to get to know them than to pit the candidates against one another in a game that brings out their personalities?

We'll call it DemocraTV, with the tagline "Dream! Elect! Survive!"

Candidates will be selected via the traditional Comelec procedure of add-all-significant-figures-and-add-one-candidatorial-joke. All candidates will then be put inside Malacanang palace where they'll be given challenges like budgeting, legislation and allocation of daily tasks. Nafrel cameras will be installed and all camera feed will be broadcast via government sponsored channels.

Each week, they'll be sent to a confessional booth to state their platform for surviving the competition and how they feel about the platform of the other contestants and try to nominate other players.

Candidates who get the most number of nominations will be up for eviction voting and instead of voting for the person we want in power, we'll just vote for the person we hate more. Money earned through the votation system will be spent towards killing more rebels up north (who are probably busy voting against the presidentiable who would want them dead). Candidate with the most number of votes by the eviction night gets booted, and he will no longer be allowed to have children or visit any SM mall, so only the truly certain will think of running as President. People will think so much more rationally when they know they have something to lose.

At the end of the season, only 1 person can remain in Malacanang. He will then be proclaimed President of the Republic. By the time he wins, we would've known everything about him already from his sleeping habits to his policial way of thinking. It'll be hard to make your actions scripted on a hundred day basis.

That way people cant complain why their leader is messed up. Nobody's ever tried to oust the winner of American Idol before. Your choice, your prize. If you're rallying, you're ralling against your own stupid actions.

It's a win-win-win situation.

So what's the deal with me proposing this kind of system? That's because if this does get implemented, I'll be the first person to try and convince Kris Aquino to run. And she'll win, not that she wont if she ran today, but with this system and her camera antics, it'd be a lot easier for her.

Why do I want Kris Aquino to win? Answers in a future blog entry.