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No, quite the opposite. Allow people to vote on stuff they are interested in, and only on those subjects. Do not interpose a proxy between citizens' opinions an
by sergiosgc 13y ago
No, quite the opposite. Allow people to vote on stuff they are interested in, and only on those subjects. Do not interpose a proxy between citizens' opinions and the deciding vote. In essence: give the common man more power.
- angersock 13y agoPeople do only vote on stuff they're interested in--see also "single-issue voters". The trend is very much that politicians will make a big to-do about shit that doesn't affect most people but is really polarizing (gay marriage, abortion, gun control, nuclear power, terrorism, whatever) and people will vote on that, and ignore the issues that they personally don't understand/care about (entitlements spending, education spending, electronic surveillance of all communications, etc.). If the common man deserved more power, I'd advocate for it, but the fact is they've remained willfully deaf, dumb, and blind to the essentials of civic process and liberties, and are by necessity driven by their stomachs and whatever the latest little drama in their lives is. The common man of America today is hardly able to govern himself, much less contribute in a meaningful way to a system which enforces its laws onto others. If that changes, maybe we can do more.