RE: Direct Democracy?
May 20, 2015 at 10:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2015 at 10:14 pm by Saxmoof.)
Quote:And how do we get this "much better media than we have currently?"
I've no clue, but this whole conversation is hypothetical, why not throw in another hypothetical?
At the minute donors spend money on ads that hide the issues on which their candidate is clearly bought out, they make them all about broad things like freedom, patriotism, gosh darn down home folksiness, things that are used to distract from policy
Imagine if the people voted directly on whether or not to repeal the estate tax and not just for the people that vote on it for example. The ads produced in favour of repealing would have no option but to address the policy itself, and there's no way it would've been repealed if that were the case
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
