This article clearly demonstrates the reasons that neither representative democracy nor a pure republican form of government can work. Everyone has such strong opinions about things that consensus cannot be reached. We get bogged down in the facets of the issues instead of coming to a consensus for a solution.
The only way forward was brought to our attention by Ross Perot in 1992.
Here it is:
It is obvious to everyone....
The Republic / Representative Democracy, has failed.
We say it has failed because it does not “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense” in ways in which we are in agreement.
And because nothing is more important than our national sovereignty, nor is anything so dear to our sacred posterity, we simply must adjust the mechanism of our government or finish the slide into disintegration.
The ball is in our court; since the authority for government comes from The Citizens.
So… how do we get there from here?
We now have to stand up and inform our representatives that they have broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted. They are in Breach, and now must either accept our help by adding the Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch to our government or Vacate the building.
Because Citizenship, true Citizenship, is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the present situation, nor will we get to the Stars without it.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
The representatives are given two weeks to review the bills before they are brought up for The Vote.
Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
Many of these bills are in excess of two thousand pages.
The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their Party advisors tell them to vote.
This demonstrates that Representative government does not exist.
Thus, they have forfeited their delegated obligations to us, The Citizens.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
With a new understanding we will also be able to accommodate new proposals initiated by us, The Citizens, for program and infrastructure improvements.
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
One of the first pieces of business is: Who gets to vote in the:
1. general election
2. ratification or annulment process
a. everyone over 18 years
b. everyone over 21 years
c. voters must be citizens – Yes - No
d. anyone in the world can vote – Yes - No
e. property owners over 21 years
f. property owners over 21 years paying a minimum of $5000 per year tax per jurisdiction (school district, county, city, state, federal)
g. those receiving welfare / food stamps – Yes - No
Should the direct election of Senators be returned to the States?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Not sure
What about abortion? Should it be legal? How so? The text of the laws is readily available and everyone has an opinion.
a. Yes
b. No
c. Her body her choice
Or the new Treaty with the World Health Organization…
Should the good and decent Citizens of the world be required to comply with the pharmaceutical recommendations of the WHO?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Depends
d. His / her body, their choice
What about sexually confused children ?
Should the government pay for and facilitate the genital reassignment health treatments so necessary to save young lives?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Depends if their parents need the money
Which issue should the local school board consider the most important?
a. Fluid gender toilets
b. Genderless uniforms
c. Reading and writing
d. Placement of litter boxes in the class room or fluid gender toilets
e. Furrys with hurt feelings – what to do?
f. Teaching pornography correctly
All educated people know that cattle farts are melting the polar ice caps and that it is only a matter of a short while before the entire planet is flooded with salt water. Many people will drown.
What should we do about this?
a. Buy everyone a new boat
b. Pay Bill Gates a billion $ to stop it
c. Vaccinate the cattle to stop them from farting
d. Cull the herd so that only the important people can eat meat.
e. nothing
The rich and very powerful have a new plan to steal all of your money and all of your property. They call it CBDC, Central Bank Deposit Credit. This is electronic money. They can turn it on and turn it off to force your compliance with anything they want.
Do you really want them to have that much power over you?
a. Yes
b. No
c. I am a slave anyway
d. No opinion
The uniform tariff and tax schedule is where the rubber really meets the road, but it is probably too abstract for most. Try it if you like, it goes to infinity.
Post: *The Questionnaire* on your web site.
Charge the voters, your patrons, a $ fee to vote on it.
Have the same AI take the patrons demographics and quantify their base of knowledge; education, reading, business experience, children raised, taxes paid and post that too.
One Questionnaire should earn you many thousands of dollars per month and AI can do it for you!
Just think about it… one survey a month at $10,000 net profit times ten and you are making over a hundred thousand dollars per year. That’s pretty good.
Have the AI post the results in real time and send the results to the respective councilman, commissioner, judge, congressman, state representative, senator and governor!!
Use the power of consensus to demand that negative policies be vacated.
The hope here is the representative will, in an effort to keep his cushy job, comply with the wishes of his constituents.
This article clearly demonstrates the reasons that neither representative democracy nor a pure republican form of government can work. Everyone has such strong opinions about things that consensus cannot be reached. We get bogged down in the facets of the issues instead of coming to a consensus for a solution.
The only way forward was brought to our attention by Ross Perot in 1992.
Here it is:
It is obvious to everyone....
The Republic / Representative Democracy, has failed.
We say it has failed because it does not “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense” in ways in which we are in agreement.
And because nothing is more important than our national sovereignty, nor is anything so dear to our sacred posterity, we simply must adjust the mechanism of our government or finish the slide into disintegration.
The ball is in our court; since the authority for government comes from The Citizens.
So… how do we get there from here?
We now have to stand up and inform our representatives that they have broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted. They are in Breach, and now must either accept our help by adding the Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch to our government or Vacate the building.
Because Citizenship, true Citizenship, is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the present situation, nor will we get to the Stars without it.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
The representatives are given two weeks to review the bills before they are brought up for The Vote.
Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
Many of these bills are in excess of two thousand pages.
The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their Party advisors tell them to vote.
This demonstrates that Representative government does not exist.
Thus, they have forfeited their delegated obligations to us, The Citizens.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
With a new understanding we will also be able to accommodate new proposals initiated by us, The Citizens, for program and infrastructure improvements.
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
One of the first pieces of business is: Who gets to vote in the:
1. general election
2. ratification or annulment process
a. everyone over 18 years
b. everyone over 21 years
c. voters must be citizens – Yes - No
d. anyone in the world can vote – Yes - No
e. property owners over 21 years
f. property owners over 21 years paying a minimum of $5000 per year tax per jurisdiction (school district, county, city, state, federal)
g. those receiving welfare / food stamps – Yes - No
Should the direct election of Senators be returned to the States?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Not sure
What about abortion? Should it be legal? How so? The text of the laws is readily available and everyone has an opinion.
a. Yes
b. No
c. Her body her choice
Or the new Treaty with the World Health Organization…
Should the good and decent Citizens of the world be required to comply with the pharmaceutical recommendations of the WHO?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Depends
d. His / her body, their choice
What about sexually confused children ?
Should the government pay for and facilitate the genital reassignment health treatments so necessary to save young lives?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Depends if their parents need the money
Which issue should the local school board consider the most important?
a. Fluid gender toilets
b. Genderless uniforms
c. Reading and writing
d. Placement of litter boxes in the class room or fluid gender toilets
e. Furrys with hurt feelings – what to do?
f. Teaching pornography correctly
All educated people know that cattle farts are melting the polar ice caps and that it is only a matter of a short while before the entire planet is flooded with salt water. Many people will drown.
What should we do about this?
a. Buy everyone a new boat
b. Pay Bill Gates a billion $ to stop it
c. Vaccinate the cattle to stop them from farting
d. Cull the herd so that only the important people can eat meat.
e. nothing
The rich and very powerful have a new plan to steal all of your money and all of your property. They call it CBDC, Central Bank Deposit Credit. This is electronic money. They can turn it on and turn it off to force your compliance with anything they want.
Do you really want them to have that much power over you?
a. Yes
b. No
c. I am a slave anyway
d. No opinion
The uniform tariff and tax schedule is where the rubber really meets the road, but it is probably too abstract for most. Try it if you like, it goes to infinity.
Post: *The Questionnaire* on your web site.
Charge the voters, your patrons, a $ fee to vote on it.
Have the same AI take the patrons demographics and quantify their base of knowledge; education, reading, business experience, children raised, taxes paid and post that too.
One Questionnaire should earn you many thousands of dollars per month and AI can do it for you!
Just think about it… one survey a month at $10,000 net profit times ten and you are making over a hundred thousand dollars per year. That’s pretty good.
Have the AI post the results in real time and send the results to the respective councilman, commissioner, judge, congressman, state representative, senator and governor!!
Use the power of consensus to demand that negative policies be vacated.
The hope here is the representative will, in an effort to keep his cushy job, comply with the wishes of his constituents.