The United States Electoral reform theory thread.

I actually think every one of Dopefish's ideas are great and they're exactly what I've come up with myself, independently (except changing term length, though that's not a bad idea either).

I've always thought that we could do without a congress these days and just go full-fledged democracy. The growing pains would be severe of course and there are downsides, but the current system isn't perfect, and it just seems right that everyone's opinion would actually count. Also, it would solve the problem of lobbying and corruption as a true democracy is pretty hard to corrupt. You would have to have a lot of money to buy a couple hundred million votes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Fair enough. Why waste money on them anyway? If you don't have the charisma to gain popularity through the media, then what right do you have to lead the people?

There's nowhere I can't reach.