Double posted in GD-Politics to test a theory that I have:Seriously... a band of 500 or so monkeys throwing darts at a "Policy Map" could have made better policy choices over the last 40 years than the band of professional politicocks have in reality "accomplished'.
A sense of PURE randomness MAY have led to a NO vote on Iraq, or the TeleCON deal of 1996, or "welfare reform", or the 2003 tax cuts for the filthy fucking rich. Mmmm k?
So why not take INFORMED stratified (weighted by attributes like sex and education etcetera) random selections of the PEOPLE ie. MICROCOSMS or SAMPLES to make some of the decisions that effect EVERYBODY?
Please take a look at this site about
Citizen Panels/Jurys and
Deliberative Polling!
Please. Please take a look. I beg of you please try to see how we might better extract the will of the involved, the affected/effected, as opposed to the will of the rich, powerful, persuasive, fake "Of The People" types, entrenched and their personal benefitial aims....and the corporations that rule us now economically.
Do you really believe in the will of the People and Humanity or just what the television tells you?
Informed "people" under deliberative conditions are, well, pretty freaking progressive!
Have faith in Humanity. The crap we have now is rule by the powerful and influential, not US, which in my opinion is NOT democratic nor is it the best way to have decisions made that effect us all.
PS~ I bet you two beers (virtual beers dammit) that this gets less than 15 reponses. It's either too deep (ie. the status quo wins again) or too complicated (ie. the status quo wins again) or the regulars are too entrenched in power politics (ie. the status quo wins again) to take notice.