After thinking about it this morning, if the tweet is based on something that actually happened, I’d wager that he soldier got in trouble for exposing classified information more than insider trading, which is a potentially extremely serious problem.
The insider trading in Congress problem needs to be dealt with as well, and is really part of a larger problem of bringing our laws into being directed by us instead of them. It creates an incentive for them to work for their side hustle instead of us, but would require them passing a law that worked to get fixed so… not likely to happen without some serious motivation.
I suspect there actually isn’t even a need for a lot of “representative government” in some senses, as the power could, in theory, be handed over to the people.
Imagine some sort of variant of this…
Every citizen has access to the “House of Representatives” to review and write legislation. Everyone with significant business interests can gain access to the “Senate” to be a check and balance on people who don’t have as much skin in the game. “Representatives” still exist, but more as outsourced legislation authorers and testers - basically giving “the people” direct control over the government. Problems to deal with would include “too many cooks in the kitchen” and checks and balances and management processes for and between the houses. May even want to turn the whole thing tricameral to give the states, as land/resource holding agents, some sort of long term vision planning check on the other two.
Obviously that’s just a high level thought, but is it a good idea? Right now? Probably not. Good governance by the people depends on having a righteous people. Eventually? If people get taught how to deal with the responsibilities in ways we haven’t been doing, perhaps…
I think your idea of involving the states in oversight is a good idea. Maybe a committee of qualified candidates formed by lottery. Right now, though, I suspect the government is (hopefully) being examined and upended where necessary due to corruption glut, so things are rather busy.
Yeah, and I’m just some account on the internet at that.
The thought couldn’t work right now, we don’t have the population, coherence, training, or character for it. The senate used to be state oversight before the 17th amendment.
Might be the start of a good thought at some point though.
NOTE:
That guy is not who he says in that tweet, though he likely IS putting out a story of someone who actually exists.
https://nitter.poast.org/gothburz/status/2047793527778898148
Thank you, this is important to know. Still it is imperative to investigate insider trading. Who can confirm the numbers? Trump administration? FBI?
After thinking about it this morning, if the tweet is based on something that actually happened, I’d wager that he soldier got in trouble for exposing classified information more than insider trading, which is a potentially extremely serious problem.
The insider trading in Congress problem needs to be dealt with as well, and is really part of a larger problem of bringing our laws into being directed by us instead of them. It creates an incentive for them to work for their side hustle instead of us, but would require them passing a law that worked to get fixed so… not likely to happen without some serious motivation.
I suspect there actually isn’t even a need for a lot of “representative government” in some senses, as the power could, in theory, be handed over to the people.
Imagine some sort of variant of this…
Every citizen has access to the “House of Representatives” to review and write legislation. Everyone with significant business interests can gain access to the “Senate” to be a check and balance on people who don’t have as much skin in the game. “Representatives” still exist, but more as outsourced legislation authorers and testers - basically giving “the people” direct control over the government. Problems to deal with would include “too many cooks in the kitchen” and checks and balances and management processes for and between the houses. May even want to turn the whole thing tricameral to give the states, as land/resource holding agents, some sort of long term vision planning check on the other two.
Obviously that’s just a high level thought, but is it a good idea? Right now? Probably not. Good governance by the people depends on having a righteous people. Eventually? If people get taught how to deal with the responsibilities in ways we haven’t been doing, perhaps…
I think your idea of involving the states in oversight is a good idea. Maybe a committee of qualified candidates formed by lottery. Right now, though, I suspect the government is (hopefully) being examined and upended where necessary due to corruption glut, so things are rather busy.
Yeah, and I’m just some account on the internet at that.
The thought couldn’t work right now, we don’t have the population, coherence, training, or character for it. The senate used to be state oversight before the 17th amendment.
Might be the start of a good thought at some point though.