Nonsense. This isn’t Cuba or Venezuela.
Now, if you rethink your idea and get the representatives out of Washington, make them stay home and telecommute to Washington, that’s a great idea. It would do wonders to stifle the influence of lobbyists and would keep representatives in their districts with their constituents.
A hacker’s dream!
Then we become a true democracy and lose all the safeguards the founding fathers gave us. True majority rule would spin out of control almost immediately. All the current “Blue” population centers would dictate our destiny.
Besides the implication of electronic fraud by the certainly criminal Obama Regime, the very absolute last-ever thing I want to see is TV living room voting of the leech masses, period. I want it as difficult, time consuming, expensive and troublesome as it can be, frankly.
Virtually all of Congress nees to be in the same place at the same time. They all need to see the same Tea Party movement at the same time the next time it descends on Washington en mass.
You say every citizen would vote on every bill but who writes the bill in the first place?
direct democracy would be a terrible idea
My congressman has been phoning it in for a long time anyway.
Once in a while the thought strikes me that America is getting the government it deserves. Rotten representatives are probably symptomatic of a rotten people.
Virtual Congress is NOT the answer.
Term limits, Fair Tax, and a decentralized government ARE the Answers.
Ross Perot’s electronic town hall. Whoever runs the slickest commercials gets the vote of the sheeple.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!
DEMOCRACY IS ANARCHY!!!!!!!!
This is a Representative Republic and it MUST remain that way or we will fail and fall into the grip of Totalitarians!
Sorry for the shouting.
How about we just replace them with people who know what the federal government is supposed to do and follow the US Constitution? There wouldn't be a lot for them to do if they just followed the constitution.
Sounds like a great way to make things even worse than they already are.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin)
I'd have a hard time trusting a government run by Internet poll.
Hell Yes!!!!!
Our reps can all vote from the slammer!
Where they belong!!!!!!
Semper See Clearly!!!!!
It would be interesting is someone with some substantial knowledge of the Federalist papers etc. could give a response to this post in terms of the republican insights of the founding generation of the u.s..
I realise it isn’t meant as an entirely serious proposal.