Alan_C

I believe that democracy has immense potential and has done our nation and the world a lot of good but our specific form of democracy is flawed. In our system, we elect officials to make a majority of our decisions for us. This is not how I believe it should be done. These officials then have the ability to declare war or make any other pivotal decision without the common people having the option to stop it and say no. Our government was designed and put into place hundreds of years ago when assembling a vote was a long and drawn out process. With today's technology we could probably utilize the internet to hold votes on key issues such as whether to go to war within a few hours. I believe that we should keep our government in tact but modify it to give the citizens more say in the issues and decisions that will ultimately impact them. The majority of the United States citizens have very little power in the government. They can vote for president and school committee members but after those elections there is a 2 to 6 year span where that voter can do almost nothing but stand by and watch their newly elected president runs the country into the ground or enters us into another world war. I believe that this is unjust. We could establish a system in which the people voted on major issues and their votes were weighted in congress as a certain number of reps. The idea needs some polishing but I think it could be utilized to make our democracy that much better.