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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 616758" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>NOT involuntary! Purely voluntary. All paid work. No coercion allowed. And it is certainly not original with me. Every community has to choose some form of governance, and some way to allow/disallow participation by those governed. We have a republic, not a direct democracy, but still we need to find some way to decide who gets to vote on the rulers. Right now, we are a 'warm body' democracy: the right to vote is yours if you are a citizen. You can lose that right by committing a felony, and some other ways, but by and large, you breathe, you can pull the lever.</p><p></p><p>Not sure how we would transition to my suggestion, but it seems to me that it would be better if voters had demonstrated the ability to look beyond the immediate day and defer gratification for some goal. AND demonstrated that they have at least an inkling of the need to take the needs of the entire country into account when balancing tradeoffs, rather than focusing on their own selfish needs.</p><p></p><p>Over the course of human history, there have been many many ways attempted to accomplish good governance. Right now, I am afraid that we are becoming the Republic of Gondor, only the corporations have the money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 616758, member: 4932"] NOT involuntary! Purely voluntary. All paid work. No coercion allowed. And it is certainly not original with me. Every community has to choose some form of governance, and some way to allow/disallow participation by those governed. We have a republic, not a direct democracy, but still we need to find some way to decide who gets to vote on the rulers. Right now, we are a 'warm body' democracy: the right to vote is yours if you are a citizen. You can lose that right by committing a felony, and some other ways, but by and large, you breathe, you can pull the lever. Not sure how we would transition to my suggestion, but it seems to me that it would be better if voters had demonstrated the ability to look beyond the immediate day and defer gratification for some goal. AND demonstrated that they have at least an inkling of the need to take the needs of the entire country into account when balancing tradeoffs, rather than focusing on their own selfish needs. Over the course of human history, there have been many many ways attempted to accomplish good governance. Right now, I am afraid that we are becoming the Republic of Gondor, only the corporations have the money. [/QUOTE]
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