The crux of the problem
Problem, what problem? Like the twelve steps, the first step is admitting that a problem exists. Once we agree that we indeed have a problem, the next step is determining what is the root cause of the problem.
If we fail to strike at the ‘heart’ of a problem, we will fail to solve the problem.
This is simple and easy to understand. If you don’t attack the root cause, all you’re doing is putting out fires.
In our far less than hypothetical situation, we are currently ‘ruled’ by a handful (700 out of 293 million is a tiny handful) of handpicked criminals.
If you don’t get either party’s endorsement, you’re not a candidate for anything. If you actually want to make things better for the citizens you’ll be elected to represent (at the expense of those who are making things worse) it stands to reason you will not pass muster with either party.
Thus is this system broken right out of the box. If you don’t get the nod, your only choice is to run as an independent. Even if you win, you will be one against 573 or 100 respectively.
Not to put too fine a point on this but a bunch of people that you don’t know and with whom you personally have nothing in common with (besides being members of the same species) get to tell you what to do.
Taking this one step backwards, any system that denies the individual the ability to decide (vote) directly on the issues is the same thing as a dictatorship.
If said dictator gets you mad enough you have the ‘option’ of not re-electing them. Unfortunately, this does nothing to reverse the four years of economic carnage they were able to wreak that you are powerless to stop.
Without a direct say on the issues, you are powerless.
Let’s take it back another step. The whole ‘concept’ of representative government is seriously flawed. People establish governments to uphold the law.
When the people elected to public office rely upon the deep pockets of those who the laws are most likely to affect, we arrive at serious conflict of interest.
Globalization is a prime example. An entire segment of our society is being ‘sold down the river’ so a few can make obscene profits, and our lawmakers are cheerleading for them.
Putting a nation’s workers out of a job, sending the work off shore then re-importing the end result guts the fabric of the affected society…while enriching the few how hold sway over our ‘elected’ officials jobs.
When the working class ‘disappears’ all you have left is the wealthy (who can live anywhere) and the poor, who have no job and no money.
When this is over, all that will be left is the retail outlets of the wealthy, the rest will be a smoking ruins.
You can’t ‘vote’ for change because you don’t get to ‘vote’ (directly) on the issues. The ‘Constitution’ doesn’t protect you, it was written to protect the overlords, who coincidentally ignore it whenever it stands in the way of a desired goal (otherwise the current idiot would already have been impeached.)
Where does this leave ‘us’, Jane and Joe average citizen?
Same place we’ve always been, up the creek without a paddle.
The crux, the very center of this entire issue, is rooted in ownership.
In the infamous words of John Jay (the idiot responsible for setting up our ‘justice’ system), "Let those who own the land, rule the land!"
Can you give me a rousing chorus of ‘Long live the King’?
Thus do owners rule. As for the rest…tough luck.
Technically nobody owns anything but we humans decided to buck Mother Nature on that one. We created our courts and pieces of paper that serve as proof to the contrary.
And what a fine mess it has created.
In order to solve this problem, we have to roll all the way back to the beginning and start fresh.
While this sounds like a monumental task, it’s actually very easy. The hard part has already been done.
There’s no tearing down and starting over involved. Labor driven society is our species next logical step.
Shouldn’t say no tearing down. Representative government and political parties will cease to exist, replaced by direct democracy.
The banking industry will vanish as will insurance. The stock market, poof, gone along with the professional interpretation of law.
That’s right, no more lawyers or judges although the lay jury system will remain as will the presumption of innocence and the concept of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Why target these ‘institutions’?
In every case they enable a few to hold within their power the life’s blood of the many. None of these institutions are essential or even desirable within a ‘rational’ society.
We would start over using the Golden Rule of ‘do unto others’ and measure all new laws against that primary guideline.
If I can solve the problem in less than a page there must be something to it. The only time you hear an issue being described as ‘complex’ is when those involved are trying to pull a fast one.
While it is easy to envision spending a good portion of your free time voting for or against whatever someone perceives to be an ‘issue’, let me assure you voting will be a rarity. If a proposal can’t pass the litmus test of the golden rule, it doesn’t get put to a vote.
It will start fair and stay fair, guaranteed.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
If we fail to strike at the ‘heart’ of a problem, we will fail to solve the problem.
This is simple and easy to understand. If you don’t attack the root cause, all you’re doing is putting out fires.
In our far less than hypothetical situation, we are currently ‘ruled’ by a handful (700 out of 293 million is a tiny handful) of handpicked criminals.
If you don’t get either party’s endorsement, you’re not a candidate for anything. If you actually want to make things better for the citizens you’ll be elected to represent (at the expense of those who are making things worse) it stands to reason you will not pass muster with either party.
Thus is this system broken right out of the box. If you don’t get the nod, your only choice is to run as an independent. Even if you win, you will be one against 573 or 100 respectively.
Not to put too fine a point on this but a bunch of people that you don’t know and with whom you personally have nothing in common with (besides being members of the same species) get to tell you what to do.
Taking this one step backwards, any system that denies the individual the ability to decide (vote) directly on the issues is the same thing as a dictatorship.
If said dictator gets you mad enough you have the ‘option’ of not re-electing them. Unfortunately, this does nothing to reverse the four years of economic carnage they were able to wreak that you are powerless to stop.
Without a direct say on the issues, you are powerless.
Let’s take it back another step. The whole ‘concept’ of representative government is seriously flawed. People establish governments to uphold the law.
When the people elected to public office rely upon the deep pockets of those who the laws are most likely to affect, we arrive at serious conflict of interest.
Globalization is a prime example. An entire segment of our society is being ‘sold down the river’ so a few can make obscene profits, and our lawmakers are cheerleading for them.
Putting a nation’s workers out of a job, sending the work off shore then re-importing the end result guts the fabric of the affected society…while enriching the few how hold sway over our ‘elected’ officials jobs.
When the working class ‘disappears’ all you have left is the wealthy (who can live anywhere) and the poor, who have no job and no money.
When this is over, all that will be left is the retail outlets of the wealthy, the rest will be a smoking ruins.
You can’t ‘vote’ for change because you don’t get to ‘vote’ (directly) on the issues. The ‘Constitution’ doesn’t protect you, it was written to protect the overlords, who coincidentally ignore it whenever it stands in the way of a desired goal (otherwise the current idiot would already have been impeached.)
Where does this leave ‘us’, Jane and Joe average citizen?
Same place we’ve always been, up the creek without a paddle.
The crux, the very center of this entire issue, is rooted in ownership.
In the infamous words of John Jay (the idiot responsible for setting up our ‘justice’ system), "Let those who own the land, rule the land!"
Can you give me a rousing chorus of ‘Long live the King’?
Thus do owners rule. As for the rest…tough luck.
Technically nobody owns anything but we humans decided to buck Mother Nature on that one. We created our courts and pieces of paper that serve as proof to the contrary.
And what a fine mess it has created.
In order to solve this problem, we have to roll all the way back to the beginning and start fresh.
While this sounds like a monumental task, it’s actually very easy. The hard part has already been done.
There’s no tearing down and starting over involved. Labor driven society is our species next logical step.
Shouldn’t say no tearing down. Representative government and political parties will cease to exist, replaced by direct democracy.
The banking industry will vanish as will insurance. The stock market, poof, gone along with the professional interpretation of law.
That’s right, no more lawyers or judges although the lay jury system will remain as will the presumption of innocence and the concept of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Why target these ‘institutions’?
In every case they enable a few to hold within their power the life’s blood of the many. None of these institutions are essential or even desirable within a ‘rational’ society.
We would start over using the Golden Rule of ‘do unto others’ and measure all new laws against that primary guideline.
If I can solve the problem in less than a page there must be something to it. The only time you hear an issue being described as ‘complex’ is when those involved are trying to pull a fast one.
While it is easy to envision spending a good portion of your free time voting for or against whatever someone perceives to be an ‘issue’, let me assure you voting will be a rarity. If a proposal can’t pass the litmus test of the golden rule, it doesn’t get put to a vote.
It will start fair and stay fair, guaranteed.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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