by DW Shumway, Stevensville
Fellow restless Americans! I have a solution: Let’s give actual representative government a try and see if the electorate can’t do better than the donor-compromised, lobby-compromised, and Epstein-compromised lot that’s been in power too long. Method: Direct, frequent voting by Montana voters using a voting app that is connected to their lawmaker in Washington and Helena. For all bills, resolutions, motions, amendments, nominations, and treaties, your senators and representatives will have to check the voting app first and see what the constituents are telling them to do. Sorry lobbyists, this senator is hamstrung by the voters! No wiggle room. We’ve had the technology to do this for a couple decades, and since everyone uses apps (phone, texting, map, banking, web browser, etc.) it could be implemented seamlessly. Whattya say, Montana? Do you think we can govern ourselves better than the career politicians are doing?
Tom Potts says
To the extent that American politics is circling the drain, Citizens United is the coriolis.