The ballots and guides are out and it’s time to vote. Turns out I had very little time to campaign. That’s one downside of funding your own campaign while needing to be working full time to survive. There’s little money or time to participate in the process. That’s also one more reason the electoral process should be revised with a hi-tech upgrade. We need to facilitate a better democratic process for the public to participate if we want to achieve policy that benefits the public.
But, that’s for another day.
Today I would like to mention I participated in a forum with all of the candidates in this race at Shoreline City Hall. It was an honor to be among such talented and qualified candidates. I believe they are all quite capable of serving the district as well as current law allows. The problem is one person can’t represent 700,000 people properly. Especially in a district as diverse as this one.
There were a few disagreements between candidates but for the most part public policy will not change much based on who wins this election. It is the system itself that needs to change in order to achieve the policy results necessary to prevent the national demise.
Fundamental democratic reform is required.
A new apportionment act, as I emphasized today at the forum, is the path to a better democratic process. I will be explaining and exploring the idea here as time allows. Basically, I believe that congressional delegations should be increased relative to the population and be assigned to the population as divided by their income-tax brackets. This would achieve a more representative government.
The forum today, July 16th, 2016 was sponsored by the League of Women Voters. I applaud their efforts and will link to their video when available.
Update: No video from Shoreline City Hall Forum yet.
My campaign manager mentioned there was a write up in a local news site about the forum that characterized my idea of tax-bracket apportionment incorrectly. The article stated that I advocate simply increasing congressional delegations to twenty reps per district with no mention of them being apportioned by tax brackets. It is an idea that will find resistance at every level of the establishment, because it could facilitate a democratic process that would actually work.