Sunday, April 30, 2006
More background
Here is some more previous postings while I think.
It's hard to make changes in an institution as thoroughly entrenched as party politics. The party system is both a strength and a weakness in a democracy. It provides a structure for like thinkers to gather and consolidate their ideas. There can be little power with out numbers. A party is like a tribe. People bonded by common concerns. Of course with a huge country with massive economic resources, things are going to get pretty complex. In a simplistic way we can look at our political system as two sub governments who are at war. So much power (money) is up for grabs in every election that the principal function of the party is to maintain and increase it's power. Think of it like territory. Ideas and adjendas as well as truth and reality come second to provining product. Product? Well gang that's us. The voters. We are the currency of politics. America is still a democracy and those who wish to be powerful must come to us for permission. We still have incredible power but we don't use it that well. Here is the sad fact. Issues are not that important. What matters most in elections is money. In nearly all elections the candidate with the best funding wins. And worse, negative campaigning is more effective than positive debate about issues and commitments. We got to face it. Our political system is broken, corrupted by it's nature, and we need to fix it. This will take a lot of work and a lot of change but there is one simple way we can start. And as I said before, no incumbents. We may lose a few good politicians but we will send a message that will not be misunderstood. We can tell washington that we are fed up with the misuse of our mandate, and we will use that mandate to demand change. I believe we should vote out all incumbents in the next election.
Adaven
It's hard to make changes in an institution as thoroughly entrenched as party politics. The party system is both a strength and a weakness in a democracy. It provides a structure for like thinkers to gather and consolidate their ideas. There can be little power with out numbers. A party is like a tribe. People bonded by common concerns. Of course with a huge country with massive economic resources, things are going to get pretty complex. In a simplistic way we can look at our political system as two sub governments who are at war. So much power (money) is up for grabs in every election that the principal function of the party is to maintain and increase it's power. Think of it like territory. Ideas and adjendas as well as truth and reality come second to provining product. Product? Well gang that's us. The voters. We are the currency of politics. America is still a democracy and those who wish to be powerful must come to us for permission. We still have incredible power but we don't use it that well. Here is the sad fact. Issues are not that important. What matters most in elections is money. In nearly all elections the candidate with the best funding wins. And worse, negative campaigning is more effective than positive debate about issues and commitments. We got to face it. Our political system is broken, corrupted by it's nature, and we need to fix it. This will take a lot of work and a lot of change but there is one simple way we can start. And as I said before, no incumbents. We may lose a few good politicians but we will send a message that will not be misunderstood. We can tell washington that we are fed up with the misuse of our mandate, and we will use that mandate to demand change. I believe we should vote out all incumbents in the next election.
Adaven
Saturday, April 29, 2006
One small step
There is not a single person I know who is happy with our government. Reasons vary wildly but the consensus is that a fix is needed. Actually a lot of fixes.
The web is glutted with rants and complaning, along with some pertty unrealistic solutions for this or that problem. However, ideas on how to go about really starting to get things back on a better keel are hard to find.
It is a hard problem. I have an idea.
Below I am reprinting something I posted at another blog ( I have too many blogs ). It is the introduction to the change of government idea and I hope to expand on it in this blog.
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It is a simple idea. The majority of citizens of America are unhappy with the current administration. Waging war in Iraq may have seemed a good idea at one time but now is is clear to have been a mistake.Many americans are not pleased with how our political system is working. The lobbyist scandel currently in the news is only the tip of the iceburg. Purchased favor is busness as usual in washington.We need a change. A change of government. And thanks to the writers of our constitution we can accompilisch this without bombs or guns or riots because we have (still) the Vote! The VOTE! They may try but it will be hard to take that right away. Here is how we do it. Rule 1: No encumbents win. They have failed. It will take a few years but WE can replace our representives with REPERSENTIVES. The idea is simple but really doing it is going to take a lot of work."
Yep! We are the government. Or that's what they told us in school. And yes I know it dosen't work exactly that way but we still have a lot of clout when we get togeather and use it.
More to come -Adaven
(I started COG at blogstream but am moving it to blogger to eliminate advertisments)
The web is glutted with rants and complaning, along with some pertty unrealistic solutions for this or that problem. However, ideas on how to go about really starting to get things back on a better keel are hard to find.
It is a hard problem. I have an idea.
Below I am reprinting something I posted at another blog ( I have too many blogs ). It is the introduction to the change of government idea and I hope to expand on it in this blog.
"
It is a simple idea. The majority of citizens of America are unhappy with the current administration. Waging war in Iraq may have seemed a good idea at one time but now is is clear to have been a mistake.Many americans are not pleased with how our political system is working. The lobbyist scandel currently in the news is only the tip of the iceburg. Purchased favor is busness as usual in washington.We need a change. A change of government. And thanks to the writers of our constitution we can accompilisch this without bombs or guns or riots because we have (still) the Vote! The VOTE! They may try but it will be hard to take that right away. Here is how we do it. Rule 1: No encumbents win. They have failed. It will take a few years but WE can replace our representives with REPERSENTIVES. The idea is simple but really doing it is going to take a lot of work."
Yep! We are the government. Or that's what they told us in school. And yes I know it dosen't work exactly that way but we still have a lot of clout when we get togeather and use it.
More to come -Adaven
(I started COG at blogstream but am moving it to blogger to eliminate advertisments)
