I am not prepared to give up democracy, though I will concede that your
scheme of an assembly chosen by lottery would be an improvement on what we
have now.
However, what is needed to make the system of representative democracy
workable is reform of political financing.
No corporation should be allowed to make any political donations. The
purpose of government is to maximize the wellbeing of citizens (real
persons) and hence corporations (fictional persons) should have no say in
the political process. There should also be a fairly low limit on individual
political contributions so that the rich do not have more influence than
ordinary people.
This would not produce nearly enough money to run a campaign. The difference
should be made up from the public treasury, allocating funds on the basis of
how many candidates a party runs.
Live long and prosper
Victor Milne & Pat Gottlieb
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at http://www3.sympatico.ca/pat-vic/pat-vic/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Future Work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 03, 1999 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: Re:democracy
>Thomas:
>
>I gently beg to differ Victor. For reasons you have cited, the electorate
>cannot change the house rules of the governance gambling casino - it is
>always going to be weighted in favour of the house. To really make change
>we have to eliminate the vote. It is the concept of the vote that allows
>the populace to have some hope but the reality is different. The concept
of
>the "vote" is the same as the concept of "winning" in a casino. With a
vote
>you may get a local win, a small change but the political system will
always
>revert back to power and the continuance of power. The only way to avoid
>that is to make a governance system in which power is automatically
>terminated and those in power cannot retain power passed certain arbitrary
>limits.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Thomas Lunde
