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(last post: March 13, 2008 - 03:56)
Citizen #34:
Dermot | > > > > > the whole thing proves my point about direct democracy.
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> > > > Smithing laws is boring. Elections are fun.
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> > With all due respect, there's nothing fun about this election-apparently not even for the candidates. We need to get people motivated to get invovled in the whole life of the Republic. Elections aren't doing it right now. I personally would have rather had my teeth pulled than participate in another election. I'm not the only one. If you hadn't twisted Txec D's arm there literally would be nothing to contest at all.
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> > Let anybody propose anything-for a while. I was the one who said recently that there's a lot of inappropriate anti-authoritarianism in the Republic, and I stand by that. So I'm not saying junk representative democracy altogether. Just scale for our size. Its not an either or in any case. We would still elect a President, and provincial governors. The provincial governors sitting together could form a provisional executive under the President's direction. When we can get in a position to have real parliamentary elections, they can come back.
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> > Te only difference is, instead of a boring game of inside baseball played on on-the-sly emails to no great effect that I can see, we get a really open discussion about all aspects of our country. We already do this for "pan-talossan affairs", why not everything else?
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> Changing the rules will not do anything for us. That would be just another round of talking about laws and will lead us to nowhere. If there's a problem, it's not the laws, neither their form, shape, content or quantity.
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It wouldn't have to be complicated. the CoD could pass a constitutional amendment suspending itself for a certain length of time, in favour of a monthly secret ballot.
> If direct democracy was the solution, Cézembre would be a swinging subdivision of the Republic. If laws could whip all citizens into permanent activity, I would gladly join the ZRT to sing praises of the sacred light of dirigism. Face it: there is no way to generate "activity" in a test tube. Either it happens or it doesn't.
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But Cezembre is aspecial case. Like all f our provinces, it has little practical power over anything. There isn't much point passing laws to regulate such things.
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