What about a more democratic process?Follow

It was at least "sorta" related to health care reform. Don't get me wrong, people who believed that **** were and are morons, but at least on direct issues voting they couldn't cry "Death Panels!" when deciding the correct judicial process for accused terrorist. Well, bad example there, but you get the drift.

When you vote "candidate" or "party" you inevitably end up voting against some issues that you'd rather be voting for. And I don't think that lack of granularity is at all useful in situations where you want any semblance of "non-partisanship" or collective agreement.

Sure, and ads that disregard policy discussion in favor of ominous voice-overs and out of context newspaper headline clippings are "sorta" related to those issues as well. Which isn't to say that that's how I'd like these things decided.


People who are too lazy and can't be bothered to travel three blocks to vote on issues directly affecting them aren't people I really want to beg or coerce into voting on national issues of varying complexity.

Yeah... as little faith as I have in people in congress to do the right thing, I have far less in the American public in general.

No thanks.

I'm more disturbed about people who don't care but vote anyway because it's a pop-up window when they go to check their Hotmail account.