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To repeat a comment from my businessman step-dad...."we need a smart businessman at 1600". We now have one there and he is loaded for bear.
Guess you’ve found your calling; me, not interested in an Electronic Townhall of any sort. Making matters public, making it easy to voice opinion - all for that — but we have a republic for a reason, not a (pure, or even watered down) democracy. Our USofA founders were wise in avoiding "democracy."
My drum that I beat as often as possible begins with obliterating the 17th amendment and returning The Senate to the states AND Term Limits (2 max, with cooling off periods between running for federal…
Hmmm. I think an electronic townhall could work at some level. How about only allowing x number of "special voters"? If you figure there are 200 million potential voters for Fed Congressional laws, how about 1% of the populous max could be a contributor? How about the "special voters" could overide CONGRESS itself with 60% vote majority?
So, 2 million special voters, 50 states that's nominally 40,000 people voting in each state max . Apportion per the House ratios, not Senate. I think it would h…
Not easy, I agree. . . term limits, more specifications for these "special voters"?@!
The answer , I believe, lies in partial implementation to experimentally VET the system to find what works. Presently, the Federal system and all other political systems make laws and implement "nationwide" or state wide, etc. Any answer for the complicated amalgam of crapp we have inherited COULD be incrementally adjusted and pruned to arrive at a MORE optimum solution. Being an engineer, I keep thinking of a …
Damn, fat fingers, small screen 😖
Anyway, 250 years ago the fundamental fabric holding it all together was the necessity of a virtuous people.
John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” That is the wrench you’re trying to engineer away from (as do I in my writing). The problem we have as engineers is thinking the chaos of millions can be controlled by equations - predicted, possibly, controlled, no.
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YES, I recall Adams statement. He is correct and we all know this. That being the case as a premise it is really hard to envision anything working. Back then it could very well be they did not regard populations of humans composed of the Bell shaped curve. It was easier to conceive Patriots were nearly everyone and of the sort Adams required. Reality is that any population will never be perfect and never was and, it will only be further from this point as time goes on and corruption metastasize…
Agree that something needs to be done AND that "time is of the essence." But can’t go in the direction you’re wanting to go; that said, as I mentioned earlier it IS a element of the story I’m working on — but that’s fiction and a part of a larger story and {sigh} ; I remove the USofA out of the world for a spell, kill peoples in North America in the mid to high 6 figures, the world goes to hell when that happens — one event that WILL happen, just not in my time line (I hope).
In the real world, …
it appears we agree on pretty much everything. . .
Your point about hitting rock bottom, to me, seems about the only way to effect the major changes required. A concon-- nope. Too much chance for it to go sideways for both parties; low likelihood happening.