Would a system of no leaders work?

Question

How bout instead of a presdent and congress , we all vote on every issue instead of voting on the people that make the decisions? everyone would vote how ever often it needed to be for all the issues . we would vote every year on how the budget would be , we would vote to change or modify healthcare , education etc. if there was a foreign threat we would all vote if it is a prudent threat. who needs leaders , were supposely voteing people based on what we want to see happen why not cut out the middle men and just legislate ourselves?

Answer 1

No, that's what we have now.

Answer 2

As appealing as it sounds, the real problem is not that the leaders are corrupt so much as people make decisions based on television advertising. This means it costs so much for a politician to be known he must work for special interests to earn enough money to get elected. The same would be true for ballot initiatives. Special interests would sponsor ballot initiatives just like the policies we would today. People wouldn't have clue about what is going on because they get their info from television commercials.

An alternative would be an internet thing, but many people still aren't hooked up.

Answer 3

Because you can't run a country as your second job. How informed are most Americans? Try an experiment some time and ask a simple question about the Constitution to someone sitting next to you on a flight. You would be astonished how little the average American knows about their own government. Are these really the people you want making our laws?

"Our government will survive up until the point it's citizens realize they can vote themselves a share of the public treasurey."

Answer 4

Its a tempting idea. Still, you need somebody to carry out the decisions and somebody to be in charge of getting them carried out. I am afraid our present system is corrupt and beyond saving...the big shots want to keep it dependent on huge amounts of money because they have the money so they get to control the government--a few million in "campaign contributions" is a great investment, it buys them billions. And they are not about to give up that power. So the whole thing is going over the cliff. It won't be pretty. Maybe something better can come out of the wreckage, I hope so.

Answer 5

We elect leaders to push ideals based on ideas. In a free country such as ours, everyone has their own ideas about how certain things should be ran. Each idea slightly different from the next person. We select leaders to help mediate the different ideas to reach a compromise that most people can live with.

Answer 6

I guess to best answer that would mean to ask who decided on what we vote on to begin with. Someone has to write the ballots and that person would be in charge as they would control the debate.

Answer 7

Lots of people are IDIOTS/sheep and they cannot be trusted to be informed on subjects.

TERM LIMITS so that our Congress is not OWNED by Special Interest Groups!

Answer 8

That just brings choas and spring forth tribes that war against each other... if thats progressive thinking I'd rather regress to conservatism.

Answer 9

Better than the country being in the hands of the human slayer Bush!

Answer 10

i live my life and you live yours.
no leaders.
no followers.
no laws except reason
this scares the brainwashed.
the word government comes from gov=mind
amente=control
we do not need government period.
this scares the brainwashed.

Answer 11

No, read the book "Lord of the Flies"