its insane to me that with a congressional approval rating of only 13%, the people running our country still have jobs. They continue not only to blatantly attempt to take all of our civil liberties away, but try and get our consent by masking the nature of bills like SOPA. As an elected official, its your job and utmost responsibility to represent and fight for the interests of the people who elected you into office. Most officials swore an oath to protect and defend (uphold) the constitution. The problem is, when they break these oaths, we do nothing. If we want change, we must demand resignation/prosecution
To me, the best way to deal with the greed and corruption is to take every elected official out of their job, and have an entire country wide election. Let the people decide who they want in office right now.
Its crazy everyday were having to fight the people who are supposed to be the protectors of our civil liberties. The problem isnt not enough democracy, it might just be too much democracy! As the population grows, more and more people are going out to vote, but the number of politicians is fixed. The constitution mandates no more than 1 US representative for every 30,000 people. The house has 435 members, but if we used that apportionment, we would have 10,000. The same 100 senators have 300,000,000 people. It was only 4,000,000 in 1790. The point of senate is to remain constant, but we should be expanding house with the massive population influx.
The problem is accountability. The more people they are accountable to, the more people have to really care and keep them in check to matter. If 90% of people hear one soundbite and vote based on that, it won't matter what the 10% who really care think. This is why were a republic, so we can elect officials closer to home to go out and represent us. The more we feed fed power, the less accountable they become. I think we.would be better voting for a locals, and letting them do the federal voting. One person taking the job very seriously is massively more effective then 100,000 people simply casting a vote at a bare minimum interest. The time is now to join together and fight the power Until next time my little lovelies <3 AC
