Forum Post: Direct Democracy - Can we agree on this??
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 27, 2011, 5:27 p.m. EST by rbe
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http://directdemocracynow.org/
"If we can bank online, we can vote online."
Is this a good issue for everyone to unite behind? Seems to be a good way to eliminate a lot of corruption.
The only problem with it is that hackers hack into the pentagon because it is a challenge. The same would go for online voting. And if people can do it for fun, then people who seriously want to mess with the system could get in as well.
Agreed.
Direct Digital Democracy (D3GA) is the only way to go.
More thoughts on this here:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/approaching-a-metapolitical-discourse/
...And here:
http://metapolitik.org/article/approaching-metapolitical-discourse
Occupy isn't going to unite behind anything, it looks like. Our local camp could agree on things, but Occupy is now just protesting for protest's sake.
Yeah, but on the bright side, at least there is a movement, even if it's a bit of a cluster fuck. As our economy gets worse, the movement will be forced to head in a certain direction I believe.
I live in california, we get a fair number of "ballot measures" thrown at us. But before the vote comes, we get a lot of ads in support and in opposition thrown at us. Needless to say, the ads are not designed to be informative, deceptive and misleading would be more descriptive. Generally the result is the side that runs a more effective ad campaign wins, and often that's a function of money. The point is, "direct democracy" would not achieve the result you're really looking for.
Not me. I want my elected representatives to do their job... to represent their actual citizen's interest on the numerous complex issues that come before them.
What if ads were not allowed at all? I think it's impossible for elected officials to ever do their jobs, our system allows for too much corruption, and the only way to end corruption is to eliminate the monetary system, which I think will happen, but not in under a decade or even quite possibly a few decades.
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Sounds like this is akin to the 99% Declaration so do you think they should unite? Could they come together at the National General Assembly? It's a chance to show all Americans that there are people out there with great solutions, when our leaders of today seem void.
I absolutely do think they should unite! With the synergies the two groups have; it would be foolish for each to fight separate battles while striving for the same goals. There is strength in unity.
Since they are computer geeks and engineers, they've been working on a project called the V2 (a super secure internet version 2) that could be used to vote on and to allow the people to conduct oversight of the government in real time. This is a tool that we currently do not have. Read more here:
http://www.osixs.org/V2_Menu_V2.aspx
Would they need an invitation to the National General Assembly? Is there a hard date and location? Would they be able to address the whole assembly? I would be glad to ask them, but the request would be more credible if it came from the OWS leadership. I'm sorry but I haven't heard much about the NGA.
Philadelphia July 4th 2012. I'm just a supporter of the working group, but I see the potential for this gathering to attract everyone who has brilliant ideas for solving the problems we collectively face. The go-to guy for you is Michael Pollok, i'm sure he'd have some better info for your group. Hope to see you there!!
Michael Pollok: http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-99-declaration-goes-to-philadelphia-to-plan-fo/
99% Declaration / NGA: https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
I contacted Mr Pollok and submitted the idea to him. Thanx much for the info and links!! :) ...................... see ya in July!
The fact that this website is built on ASP.NET / IIs (Microsoft) technology is a bad sign.
I agree with Douglas Rushkoff: We need Open Source Democracy, just like we need Open Source Software.
Not all this proprietary, metered, for-profit crap passing itself off as freedom.
More thoughts on this here:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/approaching-a-metapolitical-discourse/
...And here:
http://metapolitik.org/article/approaching-metapolitical-discourse
This whole entire monetary system has us buying into this con-game as if this is the only options for us. Fuck the monetary system and every limited thought that comes with it! I can't believe we as species can't evolve out of such nonsense. How Does Democracy Work in a Resource Based World Economy? http://www.unitinghumans.com/2011/11/how-does-democracy-work-in-resource.html
I agree. I'm for a resource based economy hence my name.
You can not have real direct democracy without an educated population who actually thinks and questions things. When we have such a large amount of unthinkers in America it hinders progress in a Direct Democracy. So if you want a Direct Democracy in America your job is to educate the large ignorant population.
I've thought about that too. It does seem like more and more people are waking up due to the internet. Maybe a lot of the non-thinkers wouldn't even think to vote if we can avoid BS ads for the elections.
California does this, and look at the mess they're in. People only voting for their own self interests, and nothing can actually get done there.
I personally would not want to vote on every single thing has to pass through congress. I just don't have the time. However, We should be able, as a country, if we come together on an urgent issue, have the power to draw up a referendum, and through the internet, put it to a vote and essentially bypass the system. There is no reason we should wait for politicians to enact campaign finance reform, for example, because they simply will not do it.
Maybe there could be one day per week assigned to voting, say Friday. Everybody would have Fridays off. Cutting the work week might help with the unemployment problem as well.
sure - I can bank on line - am I qualified to decide on which bridge to fix first? or how do divide public safety funds between police and fire? or how to enact food safety rules?
Why is it so hard to see that capitalism and representative democracy can co-exist
if and only if the financial connection between the two is broken.
Why is it so hard to see that getting rid of Citizens United, eliminating corporate personhood, and campaign finance reform would (given time ) fix virtually all of our society's ills by bringing back
government of the people, by the people and for the people ?
sure - unite behind a plan that will never happen - direct democracy - make being bad illegal - outlaw meat - divert those damn OWS punks from acting on change that is POSSIBLE.
I've met people from all over the country on both sides of the aisle that believe we should vote online for issues.
I've met people from all over the country on both sides of the aisle that believe we should all have $1,000,000
The majority of voters elected and REELECTED crook dicky
The majority of voters elected and REELECTED senile ronnie
The majority of voters elected and REELECTED awol georgie
That does not mean its a good idea
I believe we should eliminate the monetary system and all have abundance!
So, if this is a democracy the people should get what they want. I don't like any of the politicians you named, but if the majority wanted them, so be it. If we voted on individual issues, a lot of the bad ideas they had wouldn't have happened anyway.
Our Problems are Technical NOT Political: http://www.unitinghumans.com/2011/11/occupy-solutions-our-problems-are.html
I agree 100%, hence my name, but people are slow to wake up to what jacque fresco has to say. Seems like unfortunately we may have to make changes incrementally, in baby steps.
I see this one somewhere in the center. I say keep representatives to do the homework and coordinate information on the issues to present to the people (as in the bridge fixing case). Then, have the voters directly vote with the information provided.
sure - unite behind a plan that will never happen - direct democracy - make being bad illegal - outlaw meat - divert those damn OWS punks from acting on change that is POSSIBLE.
Hear, hear. Well said.
I disagree that it will cut down on corruption. It is way to easy to hack a computer network to trust that no one would do it to voting. Sounds good in principle but just not realistic.