the problem, in a nutshell.
Our government doesn’t make good decisions because it can’t make good decisions. Not anymore. It’s a problem that has been evolving over time but has snowballed in the last decades.
What is that problem? We have allowed our elected officials far too much decision-making power and have retained far too little power for ourselves as voters. Power has become centralized, both at the federal level and, to a lesser extent, at each state level. Right now our voices . . . our votes . . . count for far too little. When voting, all we are allowed to do is to elect officials. In theory, these officials are supposed to “represent” us, their constituents, and make good decisions on our behalf. But in practice it doesn’t happen that way. Even the elected officials who start out with the best intentions run into the brick wall of “how things get done.” Sooner or later, they end up focusing too much of their time, energy, and efforts representing “special interests,” that is, small groups of people who give them big campaign contributions. Passing legislation that benefits the constituents as a whole becomes a second priority. Our elected officials make almost all decisions, and we pretty much sit by and watch. We have almost no voice in anything that goes on. As a result of its focus on meeting the demands of special interests and not the country as a whole, many of us have lost trust in our government officials and even in our government itself. And when a government loses the trust of the governed, that is a setup for disaster. That’s the situation we are in. We can’t let it continue any longer. It has to be corrected. What solution do we propose? Click here to find out. Vertical Divider
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