| It is obvious that we do not live in an actual democracy. Consider this: Do you actually get to vote on anything? Do you get to vote on major national issues? Did you get a referendum on any issue, e.g. Gay marriage? Iraq? Do you get to vote on local issues that affect you? Did you ever get a choice on where the new community center would be built? Do you get to vote at work? Did you ever get to vote on an acquisition, a new corporate direction, a new office layout, or anything important? We cast only a handful of ballots throughout our entire lives, and we rarely get a direct choice on any issue - we only vote for a candidate that has already been selected by the élite. We can have direct democracy now thanks to technology. Citizens and workers should be empowered by technology to vote daily on issues that affect them at work, locally, and federally. Yes, the system is broken. I, myself, have cast four ballots in my life. I've had nearly no say in anything that has happened in my adult life, and ergo I'm certain that our collective voting history is not the root cause of our problems. Nor are the élite themselves the cause - the fault in our system is of course systemic and material. We are living in late capitalism, and the contradictions within western liberal countries are beginning to tear them apart. The dialectical materialist (Marxist) analysis of our system is becoming more correct as we move forward in the 21st century. |
* anyone can choose to make their votes public
* anyone can "give their votes" to anyone else, provided that person makes their votes public
Then you can have rules like:
* Nominate Al Gore to be my proxy for all votes tagged with #environment
* Nominate my friend Scott to be my proxy for all votes tagged with #taxes
* Everything else I'll vote myself using the mobile app