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politics and law today, is it truly democratic?

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imagine you woke up in a world that had no written law or politicians and media that all is that is important is only deemed by the people to be so thru the consensus using current technology for example earth3 states that all that matters app on your phone allows you to vote daily on numerous actions of law,environment,infrastructure,science,progression,security and so on
people would have to vote daily or within 48hrs before consensus is tallied and the highest belief would then be natural order of the day then it set for all to see and take in
so the question is is earth now today the one we live our current systems,politics and media
vs
earth3 democratic process
Posted by true maverick, Thursday, 24 November 2016 7:51:07 AM
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Maverick, I gather you are alluding to something like this as your premise ?

http://www.foe.org/projects/economics-for-the-earth/democracy

http://www.globalissues.org/article/761/democracy

http://seedfreedom.info/the-new-democracy-is-the-democracy-of-the-earth-launch-of-terra-viva-our-soil-our-commons-our-future/

Bill Shakespeare had it right with his "first let's kill all the lawyers..." I reckon.

Most people (and this was evidenced in the 46% of eligible US voters who did not vote recently) do not give a tinkers cuss about the democratic process. Most folk it seems get their opinions either handed down from their parents - the old : "My parents voted Liberal and that's what I'll vote..." or via the MSM on Good Morning America, Sunrise/Bolt or Jones etc on the car radio during the drive to work each day.

Far too many couldn't be bothered to give what thought is needed at the ballot box and just waste their chance at making a difference. Most folk would not know a freedom from an implied right or even their common law rights, or the prelude of their Constitution for that matter. It amuses me no end when Aussies quote the 2nd Amendment and others, from the US Constitution to support their arguments for gun ownership.

Put it on a mobile 'phone app, sure... another excuse for running into the car in front or killing an unsuspecting pedestrian/cyclist while you're voting on what the government should waste our taxes on?
Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Thursday, 24 November 2016 1:11:49 PM
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imagine you woke up in a world where punctuation didn't exist you'd need to read everything 6 times to work out what the author was actaully saying
Posted by mhaze, Thursday, 24 November 2016 4:40:20 PM
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//you'd need to read everything 6 times to work out what the author was actaully saying//

Or just not bother, because if people can't be bothered to express their ideas properly then they're probably not worth listening to.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Thursday, 24 November 2016 11:00:18 PM
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In a democracy, Punctuation and Capitals have a place, if not by right then by lucidity.
Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 4:01:31 PM
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