The first lady, the oscars, and true democracy

PRETTY COOL,  the first lady michelle obama being introduced by the legendary jack nicholson, and reading in front of the world, from the white house, the winner of the oscar for best picture. yes, abraham lincoln was another scheming politician, and it cost him the big prize.

There was a whole lotta negative criticism about michesse's TV appearance, mostly coming from, of all people, american conservative republicans. And its like the first lady said; since we can now all know what everybody else is saying, ever little event turns into a national conversation.

And that's a good thing. Really, its getting to the point where we can almost all just about vote on everything, every issue, without having to leave it to the elite few ruling class of politicians. Hallelujah.

We all know of course that the founders were more fearful of real democracy than they were of tyranny, and, really, for good reason. mob rule can become an exercise in insanity. Representative democracy, republicanism, is the sensible form of democratic government.

But maybe we have just a bit too much representation, indirect representatin, and not quite enoug direct democracy, not quite enough mob rule. A little mob rule now and again never hurt anybody, long as it don't get outta hand.

Millions of good, patriotic americans, in front of their computers, casting votes on whether to draft a new constitution, or keep the old one. Whether to legalize marijuana, or keep criminalizing it. Whether to retaliate against china for unfair trade practices. The potential is unlimited.

All three hundred million of us could, in theory, get online, and send demands to our congresspeople and to el presidente, demanding national online referendums of a wide variety of issues, issues which need to be decided, but haven't beren by the "representative" government, but haven't been.

Our founders, dear friends and fellow american citizens, were far too fearful of mob rule. We don't have "representative" government in this country any more than we have equal protection under the law. We have an oligarchy of the corporate elite.

So let's change it. Let's create a real, direct democracy, using modern high tech. We've only our submission to the military industrial corporate complex to lose.