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mornelithe on 15 October 2014
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Ka-pi96 said:
mornelithe said:

I believe the House and Senate are no longer a valid form of governing such a large population, that's constantly connected/online.  The only benefit is that it's easier for big business to bribe/influence 535 people.  The House and Senate should be dissolved, this particular House/Senates lifetime benefits should be revoked.  The US Gov't should then setup a voting system where the populace is responsible (that whole pesky participitory Democracy thing) to read literature on proposed legislations/amendments, and then have monthly votes (more or less, if necessary), tied to their SSN#.  If you're too busy to read up on it, tough shit.

We'd still elect a President and VP, for foreign affairs.  Replace Congress/House with think tanks responsible for keeping their thumb on the pulse of the public (which is where the proposed legislation/amendments come from).  

Seems extreme, sure, but it should be a no brainer that 535 people cannot speak for ~311 million, nor has Congress of the past 4 or 5 terms shown in any way that they're trustworthy.

But then you are opening yourself up to a whole nother problem. I don't think the majority of eligible voters are really smart enough to choose the correct representative, so I certainly don't think they'd be smart enough to vote on legislation directly. You say about reading up on it, that's all fair enough, but how many people will vote regardless of doing that? Not only that, how do amendments to legislation get made if people are voting directly on it? That's what the politicians are for, amendments have to be made by them, either to get the legislation through in the first place by getting enough people to vote for it, or even just to expedite the process.

Amendments would be proposed by think tanks as the need arises.  And you're right, most of the electorate is too lazy to research this stuff, I would imagine, they'd also be too lazy to go and vote once a month (or whatever period).  Which, hopefully, would cut most of those useless idiots out of the equation.  I consider that a win win.  It's an imperfect system, but with a bit of thinking/retooling, it would be better than what we have now.  And it would cut lobbyists right out of the equation as well.  It'd simply destroy the lobbying industry, which is just fantastic.