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> I feel as if our entire election and voting process needs a `re-write`. I'm not American, but in my opinion this should have been the the major issue in this
by foxylad 10y ago
> I feel as if our entire election and voting process needs a `re-write`.
I'm not American, but in my opinion this should have been the the major issue in this election. All the tripe about email servers and orange-tinted buffoons seems designed purely to prevent people considering this.
May I humbly suggest two things: first, you swap the right to bear arms for the right to hold citizen's initiated referendums. As I understand it, the second amendment was designed to prevent government tyranny, but it's obviously not working and causes a LOT of collateral damage.
Second, somehow beef up your fourth estate. Citizens need reliable information that is not tainted by political or corporate agendas. I have no idea how to do this, but you are a resourceful people.
- TrevorJ 10y ago>I'm not American, but in my opinion this should have been >the the major issue in this election. It won't be a major issue unless it negatively effects the establishment candidate (whomever that happens to be).
- zeveb 10y ago> May I humbly suggest two things: first, you swap the right to bear arms for the right to hold citizen's initiated referendums. Most states have them, and they're pretty terrible. Get 51% of those of your fellow citizens who bother to show up to support it, and a referendum can rewrite any law — worse, an amendment can write anything into the state constitution. Our problem at the moment is that we're too much a democracy and too little a republic. > Second, somehow beef up your fourth estate. I think that the media — particularly their coverage of the primaries — bear a great deal of the blame for today. Making them stronger would exacerbate that.