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

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.

But who would decide who is in the think tanks? And would there be anyone to oppose any amendments?

Cutting those people out would be a good thing yeah. It does sound like a promising system, although I'm just not sure it would work on such a huge scale. At a smaller local level yeah it sounds workable, but for countrywide, or even statewide legislation it may be a bit difficult.

Bolded: As I said, it's an imperfect system and would require some thought.

I think it's really the only way to have everyone's voice heard.  Because right now you have Boehner in the house who's limited votes on legislation to himself or his chosen representative, and then you have Harry Reid in the Senate stonewalling the GoP in a Government-sized game of tit for tat.  The only other alternative, is to literally burn it all down.  Revolution style, and start from scratch.  And the American public is far too divisive currently for anyone to actually carry such a movement out, without turning on each other in the process.  Or...the status quo, which has no hope of changing anytime soon, regardless of who's President, or who controls the House/Senate (unless both are a supermajority for the Presidents party, but you still have massive financial influence playing fuckery).  No matter what side of the aisle you consider yourself on, I certainly hope the American public realizes that the next time there's a Republican President, they're going to do the exact same thing that the GoP has done for the past 6 years.  And if there's another Democratic President after Obama, you can bet your ass it'll be more of the same.  The GoP laid the framework for how to be thoroughly and completely obstructionist.  The Democrats are no better...they're just in power at the moment.