Decentralization Of The Government
The way the system operates now is a perverted reality of the ideals of freedom and equality. Your rights are slowly being taken away by the thousands of laws Washington enacts each year. All this is masked behind irrelevant issues that tug at the heartstrings but do nothing to improve the sorry state of America. Who cares if someone wants to burn the symbol of our oppression: the American flag. If the politicians are going to continue to sacrifice our future for their petty self-interests and those of big business then burn 'em all baby!
One real solution that will never be done but at least it was mentioned is decentralization. Think about it. If the need for power to be centralized in Washington was eliminated then the power of lobbyists and those they represent would also be eliminated. Politicians numbering in the hundreds would no longer have power over a nation of 255 million not to mention the rest of the world. Power, for once, would be too hard for big business to control because it would be too spread out. You ask "How is this possible." Simple. Through the same technology that's bringing you this zine. COMPUTERS!
Right now there are I think 455 members in the House of Representatives. In the Constitution it says that there should be a representative for every 20,000 people. Now I suck at math but anyone can figure out that we are severely lacking in our representation. The reason the government has done nothing to control this is because they say there's only so many seats on Capitol Hill. Are we to believe that the reason power over billions of dollars is in the hands of so few is because they can't build more seats? Bullshit! They want to keep power in their hands so they can control the fate of our country and the world. They are power hungry bastards who bring on a life of toil and hardship to the masses while they buy thousand dollar toilet seats with our money. Anyway, I better get back to the point.
Washington DC could be eliminated by the use of computers. Voters could vote on issues through an on-line poll, either on their own computers or the ones at the local library. Representatives would no longer have to be in Washington to vote, they could also vote on various bills by use of computer. The representative could then live among the people who elected him/her and represent 20,000 people instead of 200,000. Representatives would post bills on-line so everyone could read them and give their representative their own input. If 17,000 voters didn't like a bill then the representative would be hard pressed to vote against them while living in their own community. Lobbyists would be virtually eliminated. No longer would people, paid by huge corporations, sit outside a politician's office and pay him off so he'll vote a new cancerous drug to be given to heart patients. No longer would special interests force their agenda on the country in the name of profit. The only lobbyists would be that of local interests which is far better than national ones.
I know these ideas sound a little utopian but why couldn't they work? The technology is there. If the government went on-line then there would be no more need for them to fly out to Washington and press a button that any chimpanzee could do plus the chimp would probably set better national policies. We would no longer be subject to the corruption and greed of our centralized government. Not to say that this wouldn't have it problems but at least a lot more people could be involved in the decision making process. America, in its current form of domination, is sliding us (the citizens) into ruin. A major political upheaval is needed to make issues that are truly important the center of political debate.
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