posted on May, 10 2007 @ 01:14 AM
Fear not, ghaleon12, as others seek the same things as you. I've posted numerous times my outline for such a system. Every time that I do, I'm met
with some solid reasons why some think that this won't work.
One of the big ones is that people aren't educated on the political issues that need to be voted on. Well, I've never been an advocate for voter
apathy; hell, if you're going to vote, at least have SOME idea what it is that you're voting for.
Just because I don't choose to vote, however, doesn't mean that no one else can. I just think that the system is so flawed now that it doesn't
matter who or what I vote for. The corporations that are giving "political contributions" to these candidates are the ones that are really
running the show. If we could stop all lobbying/bribing, as well as private contributions to representatives, then maybe we'd have a shot at getting
our voice back.
Unless of course you take a more revolutionary route, as Thomas Jefferson and the other founders did to get out of a system very similar to the one
we're in now. In which case you're options are obviously fewer, and less than advisable.
To return to the topic though, what's called for here is some reason on the part of the People, the ones that elected these criminals in the first
place. There needs to be accountability for those representatives that do something stupid. For example, President Clinton should be serving a jail
sentence for perjuring himself in front of the Grand Jury, or he should have anyway. Others served time, and still are for the very same crime, and
yet he did not. Why?
What needs to happen is that the people need to wake up to the fact that they've been railroaded for the past several decades at least, and it's
time that we recapture the reigns of a government gone awry.
Sorry for the length of this post, as I tend to ramble a little.
TheBorg