Plutocratic vistas: America’s crisis of democracy
Is the present American national legislature an “exact transcript of the whole society”?
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/30/plutocratic_vistas_salpart/
This is really interesting in its historical perspective. I talked earlier about the elite ‘conspiracy’ to rule the world, some of the historical quotes makes it plain that success came long ago.
The article talks about an interesting approach to a representative government, draw lots from eligible voters:
How would sortition work? Fortunately, there is a blueprint to hand: a short book called A Citizen Legislature by Ernest Callenbach (author of Ecotopia, one of the finest utopian novels ever written) and Michael Phillips. The process is not complicated. Every county in America maintains a list of prospective jurors. Combine these lists in one national master list, and a computer may easily be programmed to choose a random sample of 435 (the size of the present House of Representatives).
I would go with the much more historically realistic number of 10,000 for the House, though.
Of course, it is depressing when one thinks about how long the oligarchy (elite) has been in total control of our government. I suppose that the combination of the stock market crash, depression AND World War II was needed to weaken their power enough to get the dribs and drabs of social safety net that was put in place (only tiny shreds of that meager safety net remain and while I abhor Obama, I am convinced that if Romney is put in charge he will work diligently to strip the last remaining cobwebs).
