Other than devolving into a dishonest, litigious and superficial society of instant gratification, selfish interests andextremes -- the gross failures of good intentions over the last half-century have cause many Americans to be infected by a parasitical "Andromeda Strain" disease with symptoms, including but not limited to: misrepresentation in government; rancorous politics; partisan corruption; congressional inquisitions; monarchial presidencies; lawmaking judiciary;
Jimmy Carter ANational Embarassment
By Michael Reagan April 24, 2008
Talk about bad pennies always turning up; Jimmy Carter's at it again.
It would be easy to blame the 83-year-old former one-term president's frequent excursions into irrational behavior on senility were it not for the fact that he appears to have been senile most of his public life.
Switzerland and Canada: the Internet and Direct democracy
Enitiatives.ch revolutionizes direct democracy
A new Internet tool aiming to promote and facilitate popular initiatives is born. Behind this project unifying ideas is Nicolas Durand, who wants to accelerate the process of direct democracy globally and to spread the Swiss political model to other countries.
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
You may not want to know this. Americans have been successfully brainwashed to fear exactly what their revered Constitution gives them the right to have. Those smart Framers of the Constitution decided that we needed exactly what the establishment, pro-status quo elitists who run our plutocracy do NOT want us to have. There is even a well funded semi-secret group organized to prevent what we the people have a right to.
IDEAS FOR DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Ideas designed to improve representation and voting access for everyone.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN CALIFORNIA
A brief history of California's direct democracy initiative and referendum from The Initiative and Referendum Institute:
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/California.htm
Re: A better direct democracy
L.A. Times editorial
November 17, 2005
The Times' editorial analysis and suggestions to reform the initiative process is a step in the right direction. However, to fundamentally preserve and reform the process, it must favor those for whom it was intended. The people.
California voter fraud
November 9, 2005
The results of California's special election made it painfully clear that selfish interests of public employee unions, the media and the Democratic Party have retained and tightened their grip on state government, regardless of the best interests of the people. Indeed, it was a shameful epic of "wagging the dog" and whipping democracy.
California's November 8th special election
October15, 2005
It seems as though whenever the subject of voter initiatives and referendums (direct democracy) comes up, the knee-jerk reaction from those in power is to employ the scare term, "tyranny of the majority. That scare term is used because the two-party system and minority selfish interests are afraid of losing power over the people.
California Proposition 75
Published in The Daily Press
September 20, 2005
THREAT IN VENEZUELA
While we have our eyes on the Middle East and the
recent good news out of there, a danger to democracy
is brewing right here in our backyard. Venezuela, long
one of Latin America's strongest democracies, is now
under siege by its president, Hugo Chavez.
The blame, shame and demonization game
Hurricane Katrina
Published in the Daily Press September 11, 2005.
Using a horrific natural disaster for rancorous partisan attacks against President Bush and his administration by biased news media, racial antagonists, radical activists and dishonest Democrats is simply unconscionable.
Blame Amid Tragedy:
Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin failed their constituents
By Bob Williams
Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal online
September 7, 2005
(Bob Williams is a former state legislator in Washington State who
represented the district most impacted by the Mt. St. Helens erruption in
1980)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007219