Beating a Dead Horse

Newt! What have you done? The UN cannot be reformed! A communist dictatorship sits in the permanent security council. Yet magically we will somehow build “an international organization that is credible and effective, one that can work together with national governments in dealing with concrete problems of terrorism and nuclear proliferation, human rights violations and genocide” Hell, we can’t push the Darfur thing through the UN because of Chinese oil interests in Sudan. Despite what the UN says, Darfur is genocide.

We need a democracy union. Tier based like the UN with longstanding (30 years) functional (multi-party, bloodless power transitions) democracies forming the equivalent of the permanent security council that have a more restrained veto. The rest of the members are nominal democracies that suffer from occasional coups, widespread voting fraud, etc. The nominal members will vote with the permanent members and if it passes by a majority it passes, as long as at least 2/3rds of the permanent members vote aye. While this isn’t perfect it is far superior to the current iteration of “World Government”.