Conflict of the Ideal and the Real

[joemama]

Personally I think the main problem with America concerning third parties is the winner take all method of elections that populate the congress. This system does not accurately represent the number of citizens that hold a particular political belief and it makes excluding other parties from government frighteningly easy.

In my opinion, the seats in Congress should be distributed to parties based upon the number of votes collected per party on a nationwide scale. This keeps geographic favoritism to a minimum, and it allows the people to have more direct control over their government. The parties themselves should have subelections - based upon the relative selection numbers of a party candidate - to put legislators in the seats.

I think that the number of legislators should be determined in a similar method to the present congress, but I think Senators should have a 2 term limit. I think that the association of Congresspeople to their states encourages corruption and abuse, so I would do away with state based system of representation in the House - but I would leave it in the senate.

The president should be forced to come to congress on a regular basis and answer questions from the representatives, and the president should be easily removed from office if he/she looses the faith of 2/3 of the congress.

I think that the idea of appointing judges for life is stupid. I think judges should be appointed for a certain term - maybe 6 years - then the current administration should nominate a new federal judge. I think that only a third of the judges should be up for reappointment at a time.

I think that all public officials should have their records and minutes of all conferences put into the public record. I think it shoul dbe illegal for any administration to make thie records private - forever ( like the Bush administration is doing for Poppy, Clinton, and himself )

The 2 party system is sickening and should be dismantled, but the people in power haev far too much money and vested interest in the current structure, that they will protect it vehemently.