>>1048>When is democracy finally going to get updated to a more modern age? We no longer live in an age where it is technically not feasible to ask everybody's opinion on every law, why do we still act like it is impossible?Absolutely agree. The white, corporatist, cis-gendered, heterosexual manpig potential rapists who run the country (and the world) refuse to let this happen, however, because it would completely remove them from power. They would no longer be able to vote themselves infinite money via corporate welfare (which is politely phrased variously as "price supports," "economic stimulus/investment/incentives," "small business loans," "tariffs," "import duties," "taxes/tax breaks/tax rebates," etc.), government contracts, and public-private partnerships, which would effectively shitcan their grip on the global economy.
>>1287>Direct democracy is retarded, because voters are idiots who don't understand politics, economics, or international relations.And Congresscritters do?
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html>Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. From knowing how to define profit, to correctly identifying our First Amendment rights, to even knowing which branch of the federal government issues declarations of war, politicians scored lower on this test than non-politicians. If anything, removing politicians from the equation will allow we enlightened masses of lybyryls to destroy the iron-fisted grip that ignorant elitists have on this country. Perhaps the most startling statistic from this survey:
>Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.And these are the people you want running a nation of over 300 million? We have it entirely in our power to prevent these idiots from continuing their systematic oppression of the masses through their contrived pseudo-democratic "republican form of government," yet you'd have them continue to run us into the ground anyway?
>What you'll get is 51% of the population oppressing 49% of the population.Which, even if true, is still 50% better than the 1% oppressing 99% of the population. #AnInconvenientTruth #DealWithIt #Justice4Trayvon
But as it is, that's
not true. As Ben "Illegitimate Halfrican-American Child" Franklin said, the end of the republic will be heralded when the people find they can vote themselves money. And we have indeed found this–you conservatards whine endlessly about "muh food stamps," "muh Section 8," and "muh Medicaid," yet this has neither bankrupted the country nor been increased to astronomical levels. There is no federal minimum wage law that actually mandates a living wage for the proles, nor even the most basic of protections for Homosexual-Americans, Transgyndyr-Americans, and many other historically victimized groups. Womyn aren't even paid nearly as much as manpigs are, despite doing exactly the same work–and womyn are the majority of this country! A 51% majority, to be specific. Yet do you see womyn "oppressing" you manpigs? No. As you know, we remain the oppressed, rather than the oppressors, despite being 51% of the U.S. population.
So even though the numbers on paper support your ridiculous tinfoil conspiracies of "muh 51%," the fact is that you're obviously completely wrong–and probably a Nazi, too.