I was just thinking about this...Congress and representatives were put together years ago (in the 1700s) to speak for the people, because all the people could not come together and vote on matters because there would be millions of votes and millions of votes to count and it would just be so time consuming. But we are in the age of computers, instant communication from 1000s of miles away, and the technology to count millions of votes in less than 1 billionth of a second.
Why couldnt we the people vote on things for ourselves? Surely there would be so much less corruption, no special interest groups could lobby congress to pass bills and all that with their bribes and people could just sit at home at their computers and vote for what they want to pass and what they dont want to pass. Wouldnt that be better?
Only downside i can see to this is that the media would be out in full force to force people to vote a certain way...but that pretty much happens anyway, only difference is, nobody's gonna slip a bill by that gives some a-hole 10 billion dollars to build a bridge when there is a perfectly good bridge already built. (speaking of the bay bridge in San Francisco and how they are spending billions to build a new bridge right next to it)
Why couldnt we the people vote on things for ourselves? Surely there would be so much less corruption, no special interest groups could lobby congress to pass bills and all that with their bribes and people could just sit at home at their computers and vote for what they want to pass and what they dont want to pass. Wouldnt that be better?
Only downside i can see to this is that the media would be out in full force to force people to vote a certain way...but that pretty much happens anyway, only difference is, nobody's gonna slip a bill by that gives some a-hole 10 billion dollars to build a bridge when there is a perfectly good bridge already built. (speaking of the bay bridge in San Francisco and how they are spending billions to build a new bridge right next to it)
