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originally posted by: enlightenedservant
A better way would be to get rid of the electoral college & make the presidential election strictly a popular vote. Then it wouldn't matter whether you were in a "Democratic", "Republican", or "swing" State. Then our votes would count equally.
But if you're left leaning in a heavily right State (or vice versa), your vote for the presidency literally doesn't matter.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: BuzzyWigs
Distributed Democracy.
Everyone votes on issues discussed, everyone gets to put in their two pence or cents, and no small group of entitled, pointless, econopuppets between the people and the decision making.
I am going with Team B&B (Buzzy and Beezer).
Your campaign slogan can be, 'If You Must Waste Your Vote on Someone, Waste it on Us'.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Aazadan
Do you call what is happening now, an effective solution to the task of representing a population?
Because the current model is exactly what you describe, a bunch of special interest groups and politicians elected or chosen to represent the nation in related matters, sitting down and working things out... Only it is for the benefit of the special interest groups, money men, businesses, and multinational interests, that those elected officials currently labour, not for the people.
If the people are the only ones with the power, then no matter how palatable the result, it will belong to the people alone.