How to Fix the Voting System
Don't You Think Americans Are Smart Enough to Decide the Great Issues of the Day?
America—the nation that put men on the moon, that helped join the entire world into a global family through the personal computer and the Internet, that created great agricultural productivity, and that prides itself on having a true democratic government—a nation that combines common sense, visionary thinking, and the will and determination to get things done!Aren’t we smart enough to figure out a path for our country, to know how to move forward past the endless debates about abortion, gun control, free speech, universal health care, terrorism, taxation, immigration, the national debt, and more?
Isn’t it time we had a real voice in these issues instead of sending someone to
Washington to get stuck in the continual wrangling and to add layers of “pork” to every bill for the benefit of special interests?
Just imagine this: the people decide how to handle these issues. They make their wishes known in a national referendum—and their choices are immediately made into law for ten years. (Ten years is long enough to see if they work but short enough to make changes if they’re necessary.) It’s called direct democracy. Many New England communities use direct democracy to decide the issues of their towns every year at a town meeting. With the modern resources we have at our disposal for voting and counting the votes, why not expand this to the whole country?
Does this seem like an impossibility? How many people thought the same about America’s independence from Britain, the abolition of slavery, and equal rights? When an idea is right, Americans can come together and make it a reality.
The will of the people decides the future of the nation—what a concept! You want to change things? Just vote. Your vote gets counted and the majority will is enacted. Every vote makes a difference!
This is W. R. Wilkerson III’s prescription for a new American democracy. His book, How Would You Vote If You Were Allowed To? outlines 28 different issues, with a pro and con argument for each, that he feels Americans should be allowed to decide. It also examines numerous “squeaker” elections in which important issues and races were decided by tiny margins—often as little as a single vote. The book even includes a sample ballot for you to express your opinions on all these issues and mail to the White House.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Voltaire
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