We spend our time blaming ‘people’ for doing things like falsifying ballots or attempting assassinations or laundering billions into their offshore bank accounts. But the truth be told, the fault lies with us. Supposedly one warning cited by Jesus was that we don’t want to be guilty of leading our brother into sin. That it is one thing to choose to sin and something much worse to lead another into sin. And yet, our entire system of governance is like a super sin-inducing machine.
In a very real sense, those who lie cheat and steal through the public-servant grift are just victims of a system we support and for some reason, refuse to inspect. Elected office is like crack to a drug addict or alcohol to an alcoholic. And when we elect people to ‘represent’ us, we are just feeding certain people’s weaknesses.
Our system of governance is about electing people who have enough resources to be seen and those resources overwhelmingly come from people who want to use government to recoup their investment in a public official. This assessment is not about wanting to burn everything down but is really just an honest assessement.
Our fault lays with the fact that we know exactly how our government works and we fail to care, much less make any substantive corrections to fix the problem. We just turn a blind eye to a system that temps weak corruptible people to engage in nearly unlimited wontan depravity. Hitler may have killed millions but it was the citizen that made that possible.
So how might we, as a co-conspirator in a government prostrate to nearly any corrupt individual, act to quit enabling the most depraved among us? The simple answer is to elect ourselves, every citizen to a seat in an online governing body. The truth is that every function of government can now be done in broad daylight in an open forum through the miracle of the internet. Every person can propose a bill, engage in a debate on a bill, propose amendments, and vote on every law under which they are subject, all with a near guaranteed level of security and fairness. This way, there is no elected office of power to which the corruptible can fall prey.
We know how our current government works and why it is failing. We need to fix it sooner rather than later. In the mean time, we are guilty of giving candy to a baby; of leaving the vault unlocked. But most importantly, we have one of the greatest opportunities in history to advance the art of governance in the most egalitarian and equitable way. All we have to do is start a national conversation on the merits of #GOVTbySMARTPHONE and go to our local city council and call for establishing a demonstration program. Then, instead of having a government that serves the wealthy, we can have one that serves the citizenry.
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