"If there is such a thing as democracy it is people talking, arguing about things that matter for the preservation of freedom."
I think that people to indeed talk about things that matter, but the vast majority are stuck in a series of false dichotomies that keep them swirling in comfortable cul-de-sacs. People no longer know how to be uncomfortable, to face uncertainty, to do something they have not done. That's why they shun conversations about parallel communities/societies: They have come to rely so heavily on Daddy Government and Mommy Medicine.
I was going to say that these people will become serious liabilities if SHTF, but the truth is, they have already hampered true Freedom with their fear-based compliance. "Covid" was the psychopathic tyrants' recent trial balloon, of course, and most of humanity fell into lockstep not only with the fake "mandates" but with the ridiculous principles underpinning the entire scam.
We're on our own to create mini-tribes of local, like-minded folks who will work together to build communities based on our Creator-given Rights.
A lot of people were not prepared for covid propaganda. The pandemecists overshot their wad though, so I expect more push back the next time they try it. The next one though will be going after kids likely, to try to make Americans crazy. And of course yes, a lot of normies still think the government saved us from covid with the jabs, and will do whatever the government tells them to do no matter what. Best to be in rural country the next time, or rural small towns where more people know how to take care of themselves.
A difficult - but necessary - subject. Fits your Substack name - BOT4OJ.
I appreciate this because I am aware of the republic and democracy being MIA. Maybe this came to be because most people just go about their life without deliberately acting to participate in their governance. Generations of people letting democracy and the republic slide, to the point where it is barely visible in the rear view mirror. Will anyone act now?
There is an increasing awareness, esp since Covid, that if we do not care-take civil society corruption takes over. That was brought home for a lot of parents when their kids were on lockdown, remote learning, parents realizing the indoctrination and lack of learning their kids were subject to. There simply is not the infrastructure to organize them, as both parties are effectively hostile to their interests.
Expect a lot more on this topic. My next one in fact will be pushing some boundaries.
"...most people just go about their life without deliberately acting to participate in their governance."
True, but IMHO it's too late to participate in governance. Now it's time to oppose governance. That time when we could defeat tyranny by participating in the government is "in the rear view mirror."
You make so many good points. It seems Americans have been asleep at the wheel while this non-elected bureacracy has taken over- through decades. As if people couldn't be bothered, they trusted "the experts" and now look at what we have. These so called "elected" people in government, who are now geriatric career politicians, Won't Go Away.. (ie time limits). We've allowed them to take our rights away from us, and yes, only a people-based counter revolution can remove them. But I believe this is primarily a spiritual crisis that has led us to where we are. Thank you for your writings.
Yes, we are all somewhat guilty, letting the experts lead. We simply assumed they would do best for the country, but of course most people in a spiritually bankrupt culture are going to do what is best for themselves only. Now we are disempowered to the point of peril. The point of this substack is about tools for re-empowerment, that we might come together and serve something greater. I am not confident in Democracy but I am confident in the spirit of Americans to do what is necessary to protect freedom.
"It is also probably true that the vast majority of Americans don’t really care whether America is a republic or democracy or plutocracy or a monarchy, as long as they feel free and are optimistic about the future."
And now we need to modify the way we let it “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense.”
Since the authority for government comes from the Citizenry, we now have to inform our representatives that they have broken their oaths and failed the office to which they were entrusted and must now vacate the building because we need to select other means to secure our sacred posterity.
I expect increasing push back from States as the Federal government becomes ever more parasitic and pathological. That is why I would rather DeSantis stay a governor, to be a bulwark against the feds. Though I will qualify that by saying I think a six week abortion ban is winning a moral battle like you don't care about winning the war.
There is this very romantic idea about Civil War part Deux. As a patriot who bleeds red, white, and blue, I would like that but only in theory. No matter how well armed we may be this is not 1861. If it were, I say the odds were overwhelming in our favor but in today’s terms our side would need some semblance of a match against our armed forces. Basically, we need the backing of another country. It’s like this; there’s a guy who is trying to outrun the police…he may have the fastest car but he can’t beat the radio or the helicopters.
A traditional Civil War would truly be devastating to both "sides". Air superiority is all important in such a war, as the Ukrainians are finding out. However it is hard to say how the military and law enforcement would align. Because of the "defund police" attitude, and the DEI/trans treatment of the military, it is no guarantee the bulk of warriors would choose the side of DC.
I cannot argue with your logic. I guess I’m disillusioned with so many people who are still asleep or too ignorant to see reality (how can anyone still watch MSM?!?!) When the 2020 election was stolen I saw the wheels coming off. So, it was plain as day to me as soon as the push to be vaccinated became shrill and pushed as an imperative. Of course, I was suspect of many things after Obama Hussein was elected but that’s another matter for another article 😖
I pray I am wrong about folks and likely the ones that are too woke to wake won’t be useful for anything anyway.
Most of the woke will at some point realize they are incapable of feeding themselves, or doing anything useful really. They are more dependent on the empire than anyone but the elderly/infirm in assisted living. The only danger from them is that they grow up to run the technocracy. But I have a feeling the existence of the technocracy is limited. Real change is coming, and longer term that is not going to benefit the marxist and centralizing control freaks.
Thank you for that link. I am reminded, not long before I left Minneapolis, the witless woke there forced the change of Lake Calhoun, to Bde Maka Ska, an Ojibwe phrase vaguely translated "white waters". There is nothing white about Lake Calhoun, except like all other lakes in Minnesota, in winter, and just about everybody who owns a house around there is a white liberal, but Calhoun owned slaves so like Jefferson et al founders, everything they said and did was thrown in the trash, even though not one of the people involved knew a single other thing about John Calhoun. That is the richest neighborhood in Minneapolis, someone recently burned down the public/private restaurant on the shore, and gunfire is heard just about every night I'm told, so being utterly ignorant but self-righteous about history, and pandering to illiterate race grievance is the end of peaceful, civil society, evidently.
I am subscribed to N.S. Lyons, but this is a mistake.
"...today’s conservatives have failed in large part because, in addition to a simple lack of backbone, they have completely forgotten the basic foundations of building real political power."
Conservatives have more courage than leftists. Today’s conservatives have failed because of complacency. Our philosophy is live and let live. But the left attacks us on so many fronts, with so many affronts, that we fail to defend against it all. Defense is not enough.
"...building real political power" isn't the solution. It's the problem. We don't need more politics and more government, we need less.
Winning will be hard, if we start off with the wrong ideas about what the problems really are.
Also, we need something like the original First Amendment, the one that limited the size of House districts. House races are too expensive. Democracy does not scale.
Then again, if the House becomes too big, the House becomes unweildy. Democracy works better for smaller countries.
I read somewhere the typical representative has something like 300,000+ constituents. That is not really representation. We could probably increase the number at least 100% without it becoming unwieldy, but then, 50% of what representatives do is make phone calls to ask for money for their next election.
Also, I was hoping to include your piece on organizing. I will definitely profile it once you do.
First Past the Post voting is not democratic when there are more than two viable candidates or issues. This is why we gravitate to just two political parties.
When the issues at hand can be readily boiled down to two sets, a two party system works. America's two-party system is undergoing an upheaval because the populist quadrant had been neglected for decades do to the configuration of the two factions.
Trump (and talk radio) have pushed the Republican Party into the populist quadrant, but there are many elected Republicans who got into office on a non-populist platform. This is why you see the squishes and Never Trumpers. It's also why you see some progressives siding with Trump these days.
The Democratic Party is becoming the party of both the welfare state AND authoritarian oligarchs. Meanwhile the Republican Party is keeping some of the upper right Reaganoids but losing many of its remoras. And it is gaining many private sector union members and some earstwhile progressive. (Think Rosanne Barr.)
Excessive power to incumbents and lack of think tank support for populism are inhibiting the transformation. So democracy is not working very well at the moment.
It is no mistake DEI and race politics went bonkers in 2020. That was a cynical push by anti-Trump forces to break populism, to divide the working class. It is true, populism has no infrastructure, little organization, Trump is not leading in that way, and most establishment Republicans are more beholden to uniparty control than working people and the citizenry generally. That is why I am so fond of NS Lyons piece on this, one of the few clear descriptions I have read about how to go about building the kind of infrastructure and organization to build political power for working and middle class conservatives.
The good news is that Heritage is working on being more populist/Trumpy. The head of Heritage was talking it about on Glenn Beck's show a few months ago. (It was right before he spoke at Davos giving the WEF people a good tongue lashing.)
Glenn had someone on this morning talking about a new Mercury1 project to start their own answer to WEF's Leaders of Tomorrow. "Like Skull and Bones, but not evil."
Interesting. I have heard a bit about Heritage lately, so I will have to look into it. I like the sound of that Mercury1 bit, as long is it is not simply some derivation of Neoliberal/Neocon. Good to hear about Glenn too. After the Tea Party movement he seemed rather incognito.
Take the most egregious situation, law, grant, program, non competitive bid or policy you can find and parse it with AI into questions regarding its particulars.
The Abortion Issue is a good place to start. The text of the laws is readily available and everyone has an opinion.
Or try this one:
*In 1976 The United Nations conducted a study and found that four people could live comfortably in a 600 sq. ft. shelter with one bath and one toilette. As part of the UN's efforts to make things better for humanity, they plan to shelter hundreds of millions of deserving third world homeless people in the under-utilized houses located in the industrialized world. For example, a retired American couple with an 1,800 sq. ft. house will be required to take in ten homeless people. The UN has publicly stated its plans to enforce this program as soon as possible....
QUESTION: So, how do you feel about getting some exotic new house guests?*
A. No Answer
B. this is a good thing, sharing
C. I shall pretend that it isn't happening
D. third world sexual experiences sound good to me
E. your lying, they would never do this to us
F. I will ignore your hatred
G. I will get active politically and fight this insanity
Post: *The Questionnaire* on your web site.
Charge the voters, your patrons, some $ money to vote on it and to make their thinking known to those charged with their representation.
The results will be posted on line and delivered to every government official from your precinct to the President, the ad council to the CDC.
Have the same AI take the patrons demographics and congressional district, property tax and post that too.
Have the AI post the results in real time and send results to the respective councilman, commissioner, judges, congressman, state representative, senator and governor!!
One Questionnaire should earn you many thousands of dollars per month and AI can do it for you!
Become an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances, and get paid for doing it!
--------------------
It is obvious to everyone....
Representative democracy has failed.
And now we need to modify the way it “promotes the general welfare, and provides for the common defense.”
We also need a mechanism to accommodate citizen proposals for program and infrastructure improvements and maintenance.
Because 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 situation for the body politic.
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:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for The Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. 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.
f. Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
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, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. 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:
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.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
A concerned Citizen could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
"If there is such a thing as democracy it is people talking, arguing about things that matter for the preservation of freedom."
I think that people to indeed talk about things that matter, but the vast majority are stuck in a series of false dichotomies that keep them swirling in comfortable cul-de-sacs. People no longer know how to be uncomfortable, to face uncertainty, to do something they have not done. That's why they shun conversations about parallel communities/societies: They have come to rely so heavily on Daddy Government and Mommy Medicine.
I was going to say that these people will become serious liabilities if SHTF, but the truth is, they have already hampered true Freedom with their fear-based compliance. "Covid" was the psychopathic tyrants' recent trial balloon, of course, and most of humanity fell into lockstep not only with the fake "mandates" but with the ridiculous principles underpinning the entire scam.
We're on our own to create mini-tribes of local, like-minded folks who will work together to build communities based on our Creator-given Rights.
A lot of people were not prepared for covid propaganda. The pandemecists overshot their wad though, so I expect more push back the next time they try it. The next one though will be going after kids likely, to try to make Americans crazy. And of course yes, a lot of normies still think the government saved us from covid with the jabs, and will do whatever the government tells them to do no matter what. Best to be in rural country the next time, or rural small towns where more people know how to take care of themselves.
"...I expect more push back the next time they try it. "
I hope you are right, Hunter!
A difficult - but necessary - subject. Fits your Substack name - BOT4OJ.
I appreciate this because I am aware of the republic and democracy being MIA. Maybe this came to be because most people just go about their life without deliberately acting to participate in their governance. Generations of people letting democracy and the republic slide, to the point where it is barely visible in the rear view mirror. Will anyone act now?
Thank you, Susan.
There is an increasing awareness, esp since Covid, that if we do not care-take civil society corruption takes over. That was brought home for a lot of parents when their kids were on lockdown, remote learning, parents realizing the indoctrination and lack of learning their kids were subject to. There simply is not the infrastructure to organize them, as both parties are effectively hostile to their interests.
Expect a lot more on this topic. My next one in fact will be pushing some boundaries.
"...most people just go about their life without deliberately acting to participate in their governance."
True, but IMHO it's too late to participate in governance. Now it's time to oppose governance. That time when we could defeat tyranny by participating in the government is "in the rear view mirror."
You make so many good points. It seems Americans have been asleep at the wheel while this non-elected bureacracy has taken over- through decades. As if people couldn't be bothered, they trusted "the experts" and now look at what we have. These so called "elected" people in government, who are now geriatric career politicians, Won't Go Away.. (ie time limits). We've allowed them to take our rights away from us, and yes, only a people-based counter revolution can remove them. But I believe this is primarily a spiritual crisis that has led us to where we are. Thank you for your writings.
Thank you, and you are welcome.
Yes, we are all somewhat guilty, letting the experts lead. We simply assumed they would do best for the country, but of course most people in a spiritually bankrupt culture are going to do what is best for themselves only. Now we are disempowered to the point of peril. The point of this substack is about tools for re-empowerment, that we might come together and serve something greater. I am not confident in Democracy but I am confident in the spirit of Americans to do what is necessary to protect freedom.
"It is also probably true that the vast majority of Americans don’t really care whether America is a republic or democracy or plutocracy or a monarchy, as long as they feel free and are optimistic about the future."
Exactly!
Representative democracy has failed.
And now we need to modify the way we let it “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense.”
Since the authority for government comes from the Citizenry, we now have to inform our representatives that they have broken their oaths and failed the office to which they were entrusted and must now vacate the building because we need to select other means to secure our sacred posterity.
That sounds easier than done, but I like your enthusiasm....
Mass democracy is a monster. Plural democracy (ala JC Calhoun) is the best way forward.
I expect increasing push back from States as the Federal government becomes ever more parasitic and pathological. That is why I would rather DeSantis stay a governor, to be a bulwark against the feds. Though I will qualify that by saying I think a six week abortion ban is winning a moral battle like you don't care about winning the war.
There is this very romantic idea about Civil War part Deux. As a patriot who bleeds red, white, and blue, I would like that but only in theory. No matter how well armed we may be this is not 1861. If it were, I say the odds were overwhelming in our favor but in today’s terms our side would need some semblance of a match against our armed forces. Basically, we need the backing of another country. It’s like this; there’s a guy who is trying to outrun the police…he may have the fastest car but he can’t beat the radio or the helicopters.
A traditional Civil War would truly be devastating to both "sides". Air superiority is all important in such a war, as the Ukrainians are finding out. However it is hard to say how the military and law enforcement would align. Because of the "defund police" attitude, and the DEI/trans treatment of the military, it is no guarantee the bulk of warriors would choose the side of DC.
I cannot argue with your logic. I guess I’m disillusioned with so many people who are still asleep or too ignorant to see reality (how can anyone still watch MSM?!?!) When the 2020 election was stolen I saw the wheels coming off. So, it was plain as day to me as soon as the push to be vaccinated became shrill and pushed as an imperative. Of course, I was suspect of many things after Obama Hussein was elected but that’s another matter for another article 😖
I pray I am wrong about folks and likely the ones that are too woke to wake won’t be useful for anything anyway.
Most of the woke will at some point realize they are incapable of feeding themselves, or doing anything useful really. They are more dependent on the empire than anyone but the elderly/infirm in assisted living. The only danger from them is that they grow up to run the technocracy. But I have a feeling the existence of the technocracy is limited. Real change is coming, and longer term that is not going to benefit the marxist and centralizing control freaks.
I enjoyed the synchronicity of your post and this post (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/04/thomas-dilorenzo/can-john-c-calhoun-save-america/) being published on the same day. (And FL said they won't comply with Biden's new Title IX last week, and TX said the same today. Perhaps nullification is coming back in style...)
Thank you for that link. I am reminded, not long before I left Minneapolis, the witless woke there forced the change of Lake Calhoun, to Bde Maka Ska, an Ojibwe phrase vaguely translated "white waters". There is nothing white about Lake Calhoun, except like all other lakes in Minnesota, in winter, and just about everybody who owns a house around there is a white liberal, but Calhoun owned slaves so like Jefferson et al founders, everything they said and did was thrown in the trash, even though not one of the people involved knew a single other thing about John Calhoun. That is the richest neighborhood in Minneapolis, someone recently burned down the public/private restaurant on the shore, and gunfire is heard just about every night I'm told, so being utterly ignorant but self-righteous about history, and pandering to illiterate race grievance is the end of peaceful, civil society, evidently.
I am subscribed to N.S. Lyons, but this is a mistake.
"...today’s conservatives have failed in large part because, in addition to a simple lack of backbone, they have completely forgotten the basic foundations of building real political power."
Conservatives have more courage than leftists. Today’s conservatives have failed because of complacency. Our philosophy is live and let live. But the left attacks us on so many fronts, with so many affronts, that we fail to defend against it all. Defense is not enough.
"...building real political power" isn't the solution. It's the problem. We don't need more politics and more government, we need less.
Winning will be hard, if we start off with the wrong ideas about what the problems really are.
We need real power though to reduce Government.
Also, we need something like the original First Amendment, the one that limited the size of House districts. House races are too expensive. Democracy does not scale.
Then again, if the House becomes too big, the House becomes unweildy. Democracy works better for smaller countries.
I read somewhere the typical representative has something like 300,000+ constituents. That is not really representation. We could probably increase the number at least 100% without it becoming unwieldy, but then, 50% of what representatives do is make phone calls to ask for money for their next election.
Also, I was hoping to include your piece on organizing. I will definitely profile it once you do.
Still working slowly on that post. Been busy with personal matters lately.
First Past the Post voting is not democratic when there are more than two viable candidates or issues. This is why we gravitate to just two political parties.
When the issues at hand can be readily boiled down to two sets, a two party system works. America's two-party system is undergoing an upheaval because the populist quadrant had been neglected for decades do to the configuration of the two factions.
Trump (and talk radio) have pushed the Republican Party into the populist quadrant, but there are many elected Republicans who got into office on a non-populist platform. This is why you see the squishes and Never Trumpers. It's also why you see some progressives siding with Trump these days.
The Democratic Party is becoming the party of both the welfare state AND authoritarian oligarchs. Meanwhile the Republican Party is keeping some of the upper right Reaganoids but losing many of its remoras. And it is gaining many private sector union members and some earstwhile progressive. (Think Rosanne Barr.)
Excessive power to incumbents and lack of think tank support for populism are inhibiting the transformation. So democracy is not working very well at the moment.
It is no mistake DEI and race politics went bonkers in 2020. That was a cynical push by anti-Trump forces to break populism, to divide the working class. It is true, populism has no infrastructure, little organization, Trump is not leading in that way, and most establishment Republicans are more beholden to uniparty control than working people and the citizenry generally. That is why I am so fond of NS Lyons piece on this, one of the few clear descriptions I have read about how to go about building the kind of infrastructure and organization to build political power for working and middle class conservatives.
I'll need to read that post when time permits.
The good news is that Heritage is working on being more populist/Trumpy. The head of Heritage was talking it about on Glenn Beck's show a few months ago. (It was right before he spoke at Davos giving the WEF people a good tongue lashing.)
Glenn had someone on this morning talking about a new Mercury1 project to start their own answer to WEF's Leaders of Tomorrow. "Like Skull and Bones, but not evil."
Glenn is graduating to conspiracy practitioner.
Interesting. I have heard a bit about Heritage lately, so I will have to look into it. I like the sound of that Mercury1 bit, as long is it is not simply some derivation of Neoliberal/Neocon. Good to hear about Glenn too. After the Tea Party movement he seemed rather incognito.
Both wings belong to the same Turkey
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-55348161
*How to use AI to make money with your website.*
Take the most egregious situation, law, grant, program, non competitive bid or policy you can find and parse it with AI into questions regarding its particulars.
The Abortion Issue is a good place to start. The text of the laws is readily available and everyone has an opinion.
Or try this one:
*In 1976 The United Nations conducted a study and found that four people could live comfortably in a 600 sq. ft. shelter with one bath and one toilette. As part of the UN's efforts to make things better for humanity, they plan to shelter hundreds of millions of deserving third world homeless people in the under-utilized houses located in the industrialized world. For example, a retired American couple with an 1,800 sq. ft. house will be required to take in ten homeless people. The UN has publicly stated its plans to enforce this program as soon as possible....
QUESTION: So, how do you feel about getting some exotic new house guests?*
A. No Answer
B. this is a good thing, sharing
C. I shall pretend that it isn't happening
D. third world sexual experiences sound good to me
E. your lying, they would never do this to us
F. I will ignore your hatred
G. I will get active politically and fight this insanity
Post: *The Questionnaire* on your web site.
Charge the voters, your patrons, some $ money to vote on it and to make their thinking known to those charged with their representation.
The results will be posted on line and delivered to every government official from your precinct to the President, the ad council to the CDC.
Have the same AI take the patrons demographics and congressional district, property tax and post that too.
Have the AI post the results in real time and send results to the respective councilman, commissioner, judges, congressman, state representative, senator and governor!!
One Questionnaire should earn you many thousands of dollars per month and AI can do it for you!
Become an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances, and get paid for doing it!
--------------------
It is obvious to everyone....
Representative democracy has failed.
And now we need to modify the way it “promotes the general welfare, and provides for the common defense.”
We also need a mechanism to accommodate citizen proposals for program and infrastructure improvements and maintenance.
Because 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 situation for the body politic.
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:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100
new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for The Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. 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.
f. Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
g. Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
h. Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
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, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. 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:
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.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
A concerned Citizen could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes an active Petition for a Redress of Grievances.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
https://teletownhall.com/products/text-to-online-surveys/
https://publicinput.com/wp/online-town-hall/
https://www.govtech.com/archive/introducing-the-21st-century-city-hall.html
https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2015/06/06/the-electronic-townhall/
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/