posted on Mar, 25 2007 @ 09:58 PM
There are more problems with your suggestion than can be easily discussed in a single post, but I'll toss out a few for you (or anyone else) to
solve.
First, your system really discriminates against the poor. Not everybody owns a computer, and not everybody has internet access. How do those people
get their say in the New Technocracy? Or do only the opinions of the wired matter?
Second, what about those of us who have jobs? I don't know about you, since we've never met...but I work 12 hour shifts, with an hour of drive time
on either end of that. That leaves me 10 hours out of 24 to eat, bathe (My coworkers insist on that!), occasionally spend some time with my wife, and
sleep. I don't have *time* to express an opinion on each and every issue that comes before our government.
Third, what if 'the will of the people' comes up with a really, really, REALLY bad idea? After all, at different times in our past, it's been the
'majority opinion' that blacks were subhuman, that women should stay at home and raise children while the man of the house brought home the
cash...what safeguards do you have to protect the rights of 49% of the population from the extremes of 51%?
Fourth, what about security? We can't keep hackers, spyware, malware, and virii out of current systems, so what makes you think that the same things
won't hit your government data system? What do you do if it does happen?
I've got a few more, but I'll stop at four for brevity. Once we've straightened those out, we can work on the rest.