Quote:Another problem is the size of elections. When we're all trying to vote on something so big it becomes impossible to really know all the issues.


I like the idea of the representatives selecting a president instead of voting for a president. Your state rep should be the most important politician to each of us they're sent to represent people of a specific area.


Let's face federal elections are just team sports at this point that was never the purpose.

 

Size is a problem, and I'm pretty sure a LOT of people are upset with how the country is run and how powerless we all feel to affect change. Sticking with the status quo is suicide. We should be progressing...taking the better elements of different ideals and improving. Radical ideas are shunned...residual prejudices from the cold war blind people from differing viewpoints. Communism is not evil. Socialism is not evil. Conservatism is not evil. Liberalism is not evil. They are just different ideas of how to run a country. They are not inherently evil. Someone should not be dismissed just because they identify as something different. Some people clamor for McCarthyism. Now THAT is evil. 

 

We shouldn't be content with what we have. We can always improve. Take what works, debate what doesn't and be open to a different viewpoint. 

 

If we allow the representatives to vote for the president, wouldn't that just be taking more power away from the people? I seriously doubt that would fly. It goes against the very basic ideals of the country. 

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