Ok, Little Hawk...that IS, on paper, a sensible way to 'filter out the kooks'. It is probably even 'fairly' efficient. I would have to study the details and observe how it works in practice in various US states, but that is the basic type system I'd like to see. I do suspect that in Cuba under Castro, there were ways the system had to keep 'reformers' from getting too uppity, and I have NO doubt that places like Texas would not care for certain aspects of it.

You say "The people who get elected are those who have already proven themselves to the majority of people in their own community.". I suggest that various US communities will have widely differing standards of what they support. Can you imagine how some racist Southern areas would 'adjust' that system to suit old prejudices?
I also wonder just how we'd go about changing TO a 'sensible' system when so many have so much invested in defending a NON-sensible system that they already manipulate.

Still, I again note that I approve of the basic concept.