Do we need a Referendum For A New Democracy?
Are you concerned about the future of democracy? Do you feel democracy is under attack by extreme greed in countries around the world? Are you sick and tired of: living in fear, corporate greed, growing police state, government for the rich, working more but having less?
Can we use both elections and random selection (in the way we select government officials) to rid democracy of undue influence by extreme wealth and wealth-dominated mass media campaigns?
The world's first democracy (Athenian democracy, 600 B.C.) used both elections and random selection. Even Aristotle (the cofounder of Western thought) promoted the use random selection as the best way to protect democracy. The idea of randomly selecting (after screening) juries remains from Athenian democracy, but not randomly selecting (after screening) government officials. Why is it used only for individual justice and not also for social justice? Who wins from that? ...the extremely wealthy?
What is the best way to combine elections and random selection to protect democracy in today's world? Can we use elections as the way to screen candidates, and random selection as the way to do the final selection? Who wins from that? ...the people?
I'm tired of every time there is some type of disaster, the first thing every administration and politician wants to do is find the person or people to blame. Why not fix the problem and help the citizens affected first. Then find out how and why it happened to ensure it will never happen again.
I'm currently studying the effects of good and bad moves in American government and I'm hoping to see the effects of this bill, whether good or bad. Obviously every bill has some positive and some negative points, but the proof is in the pudding where it will take time to see the after effects.
I think, there's a global change of mind to safe non-smokers - in Germany, Bavaria we recently got stronger laws in case of public smoking...
yes, we all needed peace and we can get it through our power of vote and democracy.
I'm tired of every time there is some type of disaster, the first thing every administration and politician wants to do is find the person or people to blame. Why not fix the problem and help the citizens affected first. Then find out how and why it happened to ensure it will never happen again.
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