On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Rick Archer <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote: > Idea from a friend: > > i think we need to evolve our republic into a democracy. we have the > technology now to eliminate congress entirely and let the citizens do their > own voting on everything - like in some european countries.
Well, well, well. Finally H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire and one of the most forward looking and inventive people in history, has been vindicated. Perot wanted to use computers to have instant referrenda that would overrule or bypass Congress. I'd like to see something like this, like whenever there's a filibuster launched by the disloyal opposition to The One, the Republicans. But implementing it further poses some problems. How, for example, do the people vote line by line on a budget that's a thousand pages long? The problem of course is that any change would require an amendment to the Constitution. IRRC Reagan asked for a line item veto and he had it for a few years until a it was declared unconstitutional. The reasoning was that a line item veto in effect gives the president the power to make laws by modifying them and that's not the charter given forth by Article II of the U.S. Constituion. One thing that would help make things a lot more democratic, or at least lest oligarchic, would be to have term limitations. MCs have set up committees which look like parts of the executive branch. Perhaps our founding fathers wouldn't have had a problem with these committees and especially their heads who reign decade after decade, but they weren't planning to give the few white property owners a democracy.
