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Paul, you raise a number of excellent points! Taking them in order :
You are correct; the voters are generally terribly uninformed. That is why their concerns should be represented by people who are informed.
The people are incapable of exerting intelligent power over government -- that is why they need lobbies which know the ropes.
Of course, the ignorant people will often respond emotionally rather than rationally!! We see it every day!! That is why they need an intelligent intermediary which can act on their concerns in an effective and intelligent fashion.
You apparently think the reforms I articulate are a utopian form of government. That is not the case. All forms of government have problems. I suggest that what I have outlined here is a very great improvement on the wacko constitutional system which now misrules the USA.
I hope you do not think that I am so naive as to imagine my reforms could be implemented under present conditions. That is obviously impossible. They could only be brought in under conditions when the present misrule has broken down completely -- conditions comparable to those of the French Revolution or the break-up of the czarist regime in Russia. I maintain that it is incredibly stupid not to plan ahead. Otherwise, there is no way of intelligently proceeding forward when everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
It is your notion of educating the people that is stupid and utopian. The people, both in the world and in the USA, cannot be educated in the present global and national regimes, since they are fundamentally based on brainwashing and lies.
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Your proposal is utopian in the sense that it will work if[/if] everyone acts the way they are supposed to. That isn't reality. There aren't flaws in the current system and how it was set up any more than there are flaws in the ideas you've presented. They way our system of governeance was set up, does work. Contrary to popular opinion it is NOT a democracy. It is a representative republic.
Paul is on the right track as to why the system isn't working. It's not the system that's flawed, it's the people. If you can come up with a system that self esnures accountablility no matter the actions of the people in it, great, but I don't think there is such a system. Adding to Paul's list the things that have caused our system to fail would be our politcians basically ignoring the established rules of governance in our constitution, a public that doesn't seem to under stand the constitution and or doesn't care about and a media that won't hold government accountable which initially was their main job.