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She hung a Pride flag at her shop. She was killed over it, officials say.
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I say fuck representative government. We as people, all of us, are flawed. And no matter who we elect, they will at some point, use the power or voice we've entrusted them with to their own ends and for their own means. We need Digital Direct Democracy. It's time to end the notion that society needs elected representation to act as wranglers and moderate our opinion. The technology is here and honestly I think it's a system that the founders would have been behind.
Sure, I mean that would be great but looking at where the US is right this min maybe the focus should be just a touch lower.
there's at least 5-7 states where you could pass it as a constitutional referendum. The only hang up is that we are baked in as representative governments on a state level due to agreements made to the federal government constitutionally when we joined the union. You'd have to find a way to make a representative system function like a delegate system, but not under the eyes of the law. It seems like a real moonshot, but where I'm at all it would take is the courts to approve the language and around 50,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. 50%+ of the vote and it's enacted.
The reason we got fucked over is a LACK of representation. We started a fucking revolution because we were so heavily taxed by a foreign power.
Maybe you want to move into a different direction where all are somehow involved in lawakong, but that'd be a huge clusterfuck.
Imagine 330,000,000+ individual policies...
Technology could largely streamline that and condense things in plain language for people to understand. Research councils and individual polling could help to dictate ballot composition. I've seen it proposed that you could enact whats known as liquid voting, where by you could entrust a like minded friend you consider more knowledgeable to vote for you. Outside of that, so much of that individual policy is performative and redundant. We can change how the system works incrementally and work toward greater levels of involvement and knowledge will become more common the more people have a taste for it. We can incentivize participation by linking it to civil duty and a lessening of your personal taxes.