I understand that this proposal is a drastic change to our system and one that may be highly criticized, but I believe real change is needed for us to create a system that is uncorrupt from modern day beaurocrats and build a sustainable future in such means.
Currently, we vote on representatives to the House of Representatives and Senate. They each represent views that each of us may or may not agree on and disagree on respectively base on certain policies, however, we vote for the representative that “overall” represent what we feel most strongly about or that most encompasses our beliefs and views. This lead to our representatives voting in certain ways, AFTER the election, that we (at times) do not agree with (how many times have you thought, why would they vote like that?!)
The proposal is to change how our system functions. Let us set up a TRANSPARENT system, where every legislative bill proposed (written in nonlegal terms average Americans can comprehend) is publicized (in advance) and the American people can vote on it electronically based off a SSN enabled login (where you can see what vote YOU cast and you can see the current status of where the vote resides in your state/district (based on senators/representative).
Votes are then tallied (in real time) based off your state or district and your Representatives/Senators MUST vote in Congress based on what their substituents decide.
Emergency powers that need congressional approval (such as War or emergency action) are still allocated to the representatives until the American people can be allocated time to cast a vote. Funding provided overseas is limited to specified amounts without a quartum vote from the American people.
This limits representatives from deceiving their voter base or voting based off lobbying efforts or conforming to bribes or blackmail in a two party system. It gives the control back to The People without reliance on full blind trust in their representative and allows The People to make decisions for every policy that best suits them and their families with their representative fully supporting their substituents decision. Representatives become meer spoke persons for We the People.
This would also result in more people being involved and informative with the policies that are being created and bringing about a greater transparency prior to a bill being passed. We can no longer trust in the “promises” being made, we must take it into our own hands to create a better world for ourselves and our children.
If you have criticism or suggestions to revise or change this concept for the better, I would love to hear both sides of the isle. The idea is to bring the power back to We the People and to remove the establishments hold on Americans making decisions that effect every one of us on a National scale. This is not a perfect model and more specifications need to be established but I think dialogue is how we start to get there. Looking forward to your thoughts and opinions.
What you’re asking for, in short, is for the American Republic to be replace with a direct Democracy, which would basically require the entire system be re-written from the ground up.
I am in full support of an American Republic, I’m just at a loss for how we can change our current system to sustain long term transparency without drastic change to where we don’t lose power (except ever 2-6 years) and can eliminate all the fraud and corruption that has overtaken the System. This is why I stated it is a proposal concept and am completely open to dialogue and ideas. Please feel free to introject and offer reasonable solutions without us having to micromanage every policy. There will always be issues and disagreeance, but we must voice a solution to put forward to implement change.
If you’re talking about all legislation, I’d like that let’s get that done. The people must participate verbally and not just in town halls. This would be exciting.
Our current system is hampered by national political parties that control who can vote in primaries. Open primaries would allow all voters (including independents) to participate in the candidate selection process. National political parties invented the primary process so that they could control the general election candidate choices. To illustrate, in 1778, in the 4th district of VA Madison and Monroe were the choices voters had to choose from. Neither was from a “party” and each rode together through the district talking to voters. Today if these two were of the same party, they would not be able to both run in the general election. Open primaries allow citizens to return to this time and select who they think among all the choices presented who should be the general election options. The other thing that has to change is gerrymandering. Move district mapping in each state out of the legislature and to a bipartisan committee that draws the districts to best reflect the populace. 92% of house districts are safe for one party or the other. The only way to get real debate and to lessen the power of the radical right and left in the primary selection of candidates is to draw districts that are competitive between parties. Not having competitive house races means the election is decided in the primary, and in the primary it is the most radical voters that tend to control who wins.
The best argument against Open Primaries is the fact that in in the 2024 Primary, you had voters who exploited the Open Primary process to vote for Nikki Haley over Donald Trump but with no intention of actually voting for Nikki Haley in the general election.
Imagine a circumstance where Trump wasn’t the juggernaut candidate - you could legitimately have voters manipulating the process in order to push the weaker candidate and squeeze out the actual outsiders who want real change.