Forum Post: For, by and of whom?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 11:11 a.m. EST by daroon
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'For the people, by the people and of the people...' is how Lincoln described it (seven score and 8 years ago) but what we have today is more like... 'For the interests, of the powerful, by the elite...' Democracy in America is dying.
I certainly agree it is hurting, let's keep it from dying. so many of us have
One Common Interest: End Corporate Lobbyists
from there all these other issues can be raised, debated, and voted on based on our representative government weighted one vote per one citizen.
Corporate lobbyists serve the interests of perhaps 1 in 1,000 of us. with those numbers I can imagine an end to the practice. One issue, one focus nearly all of us will agree on that will open the door to all the other issues being negotiated with our common interest in the forefront.