The Maturing of the Democratic Process

About the Book

The present Public Vote Option is suggested as a means by which the American middle class could re-strike the balance of power, and make the hard choices between the gridlocked Republican and Democratic Congressional versions of bills-to reform the tax code, healthcare system, national energy policy-and all the rest of the items of national security the two parties have not been able to reach compromises on in the national interest. The current broken system of government by psychological operations of the two parties is in fact seen to be in catastrophic denial, and unable to prepare the American people for the coming end to the Reagan-thru-Obama credit era, focusing instead on personalities and their continuous campaigns of focus group designed false promises.

National Initiatives (i.e., privately written bills) are NOT supported here. Congress can well enough write any solution into a bill...to the extent there is a government solution...they just can't be expected to make the hard choices themselves.

In fact, Congress has the power right now to adopt a Joint Resolution to its rules of order, agreeing to put its competing versions of bills to a public vote, and passing the eventual winning version on to the president for signing, or veto, as usual.

The idea is to mediate between the competing corporate special interests, wherein the suggested new protocol could effect the cure sought by the line-item veto, in that the American voting public would have no patience for deciphering any hidden pork barrel agendas. Campaign finance reform would result in that the special interests could be expected to divert their funding away from fabricated personalities into presenting their facts, half truths, and outright lies to the people directly instead of having to rely on the unscrupulous politicians to do it for them. There has already been one and only one national referendum in the nation's history, the idea is to elevate to a statutory level the process by which the Constitution itself was drafted by elected representatives and voted on by the people-for we have met the enemy, and the corporations are us.

About the Author

David A Harness is an informed citizen living in California.