it is clear to any who pay attention that
the political system is failing…the saying of
“clean the swamp” is just a low rent version of
the system is failing…
I would suggest that the failure comes from failure of leadership and
that lies with congress and lies with elected officials…including the
President…one of my complaints with Obama was this lack of
a goal…yes, he did an excellent job rebuilding the economy
and keeping America safe and all that, but he didn’t have a vision
of where we were and where we needed to be… that in my mind
is his greatest failure… he was an excellent administrator but he
didn’t have any type of vision or a goal to follow…
the congress has no concern at all about a vision or a goal except
to make money… that drive to wealth, that drive to nihilism is
what makes congress so terrible…representative democracy has
failed for this reason… the representatives are only concerned
about getting theirs and they don’t care about the needs or concerns
of the average American…we must replace representative democracy
with direct democracy… we should vote on these matters… and technology
has made this possible…with computers and smart phones…
we can vote on matters directly of concern to us
for example, congress can write the tax laws and we, the taxpayers,
make the final vote on yes or no… we can make it a simple majority vote
on matters of state…congress writes the laws, we voters vote on those laws…
no law can be rushed through congress and the president enforces our votes…
I believe direct democracy can eliminate the worst aspects of representative
democracy… we must see all bills and all aspects of that bill before we
vote on it… voting can last maybe a week on any given bill… but we
voters…in fact, anyone over 18 can vote on these bills regardless of their
circumstances… we give everyone the right to vote on these bills…
we the people in order to form a more perfect government…
the we is now all of us and that is a good thing…instead of a congress being
bought and paid for, we decide our fate…
as a side note, congress no longer have fixed terms… we can vote them in or out
at our convenience and we no longer allow unlimited terms… congress gets
term limits of 6 years… we must make congress answer to the people and not
to wealthy donors who get to pay to play…we must, must take back the
the government which has become out of reach of the average American…
congress, indeed the entire government must be held accountable to the
people… we the people in order to form a more perfect union…
we must carry the notion of government of the people, for the people,
by the people to its logical conclusion…we have gone half way with that
idea and its time has come to complete the task… make America
a direct democracy…that is the only path left to us…
Kropotkin