Did you vote in any of the recent elections? If you did, good for you. You are partially (but no more than those who didn't vote) responsible for the fiascos that highlight many North American's useless daily bitch-fests. How many people do you know that share the same views on every issue with you? None and then some. The issue is not who you voted in, but the system as a whole. It's fundamentally flawed. Tell you what, I'll give you 10 acres of land, 40 slaves and the freedom to say whatever the fuck you want.... so long as you don't slander me and the 3 other guys that tax the shit out of you. So, me and the 3 other guys are gonna get together and talk to the 3 other guys from another, bigger 20 acre place and try to figure out the taxes and laws for your jurisdiction. Hmm, seems we've decided that for some reason your quaint 10 acres should earn you more money than his over-sized 2o acres and while we're at it, we've decided (Democratically... between the 4 of us, or 7 of us) that you have to pay your slaves more than the 20 acres' guy's peons because of different labour laws. Also, since it's a democracy, we've called the meeting for when you're travelling and the majority of your slaves are available. The problem with our present democracy is that it doesn't seek current prevalence of ideals. We need permanently open referendums that reflect the moods and growth of our society. I know that my parable was horrible, but I've been drinking my beer, that probably costs me at least $1.40 more under new legislation, and probably got me .03% drunker than usual, in silent rebellion, and I'm used to people thinking I'm an idiot anyways. Basically, what I'm trying to say is this: Our government is not a democracy, it's a de-mock-racy, and there are things we can do to change this. We complain on a daily basis over shit that we know we're not going to change; however, if a true democracy was instilled this would change. A government run basically the same as our present one, but with a database with blogging and super-secure (costly, I know) programming that enables people to change the decisions of stupid politicians. Politicians are supposed to represent the people, but all too often it seems to me that we have been poorly represented and the majority of people I talk to wonder how such a concensus came to be. With a true democracy and blogging open to any issue, laws could be changed on a whim and a majority. If people decided that you couldn't type with your fingers and there was, say, a 33% vote of the populace with 60% majority supporting the cause it would need a 20% sway to change it ( I know not a true democracy, but to ensure balance, also 55 would probably work well) I would gladly type with my fingers. There are votes that could obviously be dangerous and detrimental, but the responsibility of the people is to be accountable, and right now, we don't have that. At least with this if we made a poor decision people could immediately rectify it by changing their mind and voting again. P.S. Future blogs will be better, and fuck the autoworkers, not as people, but as unions. True democracy will fix unions... enabling the entire populace to decide the value of certain positions instead of imbalanced 'capitalism'... just because someone will pay a certain amount for someone's services doesn't mean those services should be worth that much.
Peace fuckers!
