From outside the box

It's time to change the way we vote in America because the system we have now is not fair. But then again, neither is our tax system, our corporate welfare system, our no-bid government contracts system, our right wing barrow and spend system, i.e. we have complete system break down. We have devolved and digressed into a muck of greed and corruption. Indeed, there is much fixing that needs to be done in our country, and I think the way we vote would be a good place to start.

When Al Gore won the popular vote and lost the election to George Bush in 2000, it sickened most democrats. It was like getting mule kicked right in the gut. They say it was democracy at work, the way the system has been set up, pure American. I say it was bull@#$%. It was anti democracy because it thwarted the will of the majority. So many good ideas started out as simple ideas and then, over time, got puked on by politicians.

Voting should be a simple process of majority rules. Why can't we get rid of delegates, super delegates, and the electoral college and just let the popular vote be the final word? I know that the whole process has been complicated by a little thing called MONEY. And I have to plead a little bit of ignorance here on how the intricacies of the system play out, however, in my childlike naivete I believe we need to scrap the whole system and start over with a system based simply on the old fashioned concept of....the voter decides. And if we can manage to do such a feat, maybe we could also do it with the tax system. Talk about complicated....I think it's easier to understand brain surgery than it is to understand our tax code. Changes are needed, but how? How do you remove the fox from guarding the hen house when the fox makes all the rules?

Personally, I see a reckoning coming. Either in the form of depression and economical collapse, major climate changes, diseases gone wild, terrorist attacks....something that will probably be devastating but will hopefully lead to a major paradigm shift in our collective consciousness. Maybe we will arrive at a place where we all agree that we have been screwed and were not going to take it any longer, kind of like we were at when we had the Revolutionary war. I don't think we will have a military revolution but maybe we will collectively come to an agreement that it is time to revamp the whole system and the greedy children in charge will have proven that they are not capable of the job.

The only good thing to come out of 911 was that for a brief moment in time we were unified as Americans. We were willing to do whatever it took to make sure that 911 never happened again. Too bad we didn't have any real leadership. That's why I think it will take a major catastrophe to get us to that point again. And when we get there, I hope we will remember how Bush used that unified and cooperative will of the people to start his dirty little war which began the major transfer of wealth from the middle class to the elite few. Maybe then we will DEMAND real change, change that benefits us the people, not just corporations, and if you aren't willing to start producing results then step aside! That will be the point when we can rebuild, redesign, make it better, stronger, more honest, and most of all....keep it simple....get back to basics. When that day comes, lets start with how we vote.