Well, I've been saying it for a while now, but I do think that the country is broken and can't be fixed. I think the people in the "Disagree" category of this survey suffer from what the world views as one of the USA's best qualities: Optimism.
This survey is a Zogby survey that finally starts to address that people are not happy with our republic. I think it is broken and we are in the end days of the empire. Anywho, I brought up to my bud Brian that we now have the technology to eliminate our representative democracy - everyone can vote on everything, 1 vote for 1 person, none of this electoral college crap so Ohio and Florida decide who the president is. Also, I'm would be pissed if good ol' Massachusetts left the USA - actually the whole Northeast Corridor should become its own republic sans rest of the states!
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The key to falling into the "Disagree" column is leveraging your optimism to find every possible scenario in which the question becomes disagreeable, and as long as you find a few that are somewhat viable, you're all set.
A true direct democracy for all Americans would virtually require ubiquitous WiMiax coverage (which would be nice for my portfolio) and for all of us to work no more than 35-40 hours a week, so that we can spend the rest of our time educating ourself on the issues on which we will have to orate as direct-democracy participants. I guess we could use Second Life as a medium for holding our national forums, but we may have to institute a rule whereby, upon entering the forum, your avatar will be stripped of fluorescent clothing, magic pendants, horns, superfluous heads and limbs, and other distractions, in order to maintain a civil atmosphere. But that would probably be immediately overturned as an infringement upon First Amendment rights.
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