[enactolaelant]

GSUS! LTNS. what do you guys and girls make of direct democracy? i watched this episode of the keiser report, where he interviewed ex-US senator mike gravel (who has spent the last 10 years or so working on an idealised direct democracy constitution):



i think that his point that the only successful way out of the covert fascism that we live in is to become the law makers ourselves is a very good one. there was another interview by keiser with an icelandic MP recently and she noted that 95% or more of politicians are either in the pockets of bankers or bankers themselves (not news, i know, but to hear it from an MP must be turning a thought or 2 in a typical icelander's head), and that even though iceland had popularly rejected bank bailouts, they're actually happening anyway (the IMF just privatised some state electricity company, as a start on repayments of the loan that iceland did indeed accept), so the question then for people there has to be, what do we do then?? if the current system has become so irrelevant that it's working in direct opposition to the great majority of the people in an obvious and active manner, and attempts to change it from within fail, i can only see this idea of direct democracy as a potential solution. the people themselves as the authors of the laws. switzerland is a quasi-example, though apparently the direct democracy apparatus is subservient to the representative democracy government, so i don't know that there's anywhere on the planet that has successfully implemented these ideas. they'd probably spread quite quickly...i'm reminded a little of the diggers, who were swiftly persecuted by the state.

i'm not holding my breath, o'course, as i think it'll be total monetary collapse that forces everyone's hand in addressing the issue of their own slavery (y'all seen thrive yet?), but i wonder what people think of the notion of governing themselves by voting on any and every issue that they want to, and the tyranny of the majority at least being genuinely implemented, rather than the tyranny of the people who are paid by us to represent us.