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Let's Have a Party!
August 18th, 2010, Gary to
himself.
Q: Why do we allow Governments to go to war, when the majority of
people are against most wars?
A: Most democracies are not true democracies i.e. of the people, by the people and
for the people, but ruled by a few elites within a political party system with their own agendas.
Unless the political system is changed to a purer form of direct democracy where
the people are self-governing, then things will stay the same.
How might this come about? There are no longer any technical reasons why people can't
vote on any issue, given the advances in information technology. Even automated teller machines could do the job
today.
The only real obstacle - and it's a massive one - is just how many people really want
this kind of power and there would need to be enlightened leaders who wanted it too.
Apathy, alienation and disengagement in the political process don't help
either.
Only the truly repressed might want something better, but the severely
disadvantaged are the last people to get organised and most people have got it pretty good in most
western democracies anyway.
