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so wait---the more i read of this, comrade, the more i am seeing your idea as essentially anti-democratic, like your objective is to paralyze the house by blowing it up, altering the notion of interaction away from coherent debate on the floor amongst representatives to interaction between repesentatives and constituents. you seem to think that this would be more "responsive" on the one hand--to whom? well, to you, of couse---and less able to actually do stuff on the other.
i would think that a more coherent approach toward the same end of making representatives more responsive would be to make them more revocable--so a more direct democratic approach---build a referendum process so that a constituency could revoke the representative--and since you seem to feel no particular need to attend to process, i will reciprocate.
personally, i think the american system is nowhere near democratic enough--the idea that the bush administration can remain in power agfter having launched a fucking war on false pretenses and that there is nothing to be done until the next single day, 4 years later, when americans are actually politically "free" rolls around...that has nothing to do with democracy.
and it seems to me that your proposal has even less to do with it---unless you have an idea of how legislation would be formulated and passed that did not involve "discourse"--which you seem to find pernicious (pipe-smoking professors? what, you have a problem with pipes?)---etc....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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