“Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.”

P.J. O’Rourke

Uber is allowing customers in Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, reaching an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved. This is big news, but I’ve noticed many driverless cars already in Colorado. Humans occupied the driver’s seat, but the vehicles might as well have been driverless, as the people were engaged in applying makeup, texting, eating or reading the newspaper while in the driver’s seat. As I was driving down I-25 on my way to Denver last week, having just flossed, it hit me! No, not a pseudo-driverless car, an idea. If we can make cars driverless, why not remove politicians from our Representative Republic and move towards a Politician-less DirectDemocracy? Why should the politicians get all the perks when we as tax paying citizens could participate more fully in the waste, fraud and deception. We have the technology, this could be the Millennial Generation’s Moon Shot.(So young people, back in the day, when NASA was more involved in space projects than Muslim outreach, they put Astronauts on the moon several times). Joe Six Pack and Connie Chablis are reading this and saying, He needs to put down the hooka and get real! Great! This demonstrates what makes a Direct Democracy work! In a Direct Democracy every citizen has the right to propose a policy, then debate and vote on it. In ancient Athens (Greece) these debates stimulated people to produce Philosophy, to invent the Theatre, Comedy, and to convince people by logical reasoning rather than by imposing one? It would be a Tragedy to ignore this history. In the modern US, millions of citizens could use TV for the debate, mobile phones, magnetic cards and touch screens for voting. In every government Department (Health, Education, Industry, Finance etc.) operates its own TV channel around the clock showing issue debates. Panel members must have knowledge and experience with issues of the particular department and serve only limited terms, drawn from a lottery of experts. They will answer questions phoned in by the public. They will explain the good and bad points of every proposal. Well you get the idea. I’m just a big picture guy. Details could be worked out with some tweaks to the Constitution. We could start with the Feds then move to State Governments after we get the kinks worked out. We’d need to build a wall, a firewall that is, to eliminate voter fraud. Maybe using retinal or at least fingerprint recognition and have Canada pay for it. They are a friendly and polite people who avoid saying no at all costs and might be feeling guilty because of NAFTA, eh? Maybe all the out of work Senators, Representatives and Lobbyists could be required to attend an ethics and honesty recovery program at Positive Integrity Mastery for Politicians seminars (PIMP) before they could sign up for Obamacare and their pension benefits could be voted on by the general public. Well gotta go. I’m considering establishing a non-profit called the Harris Enterprise Initiative Solution Trust (HEIST), where you can donate and get on the ground floor of this exciting initiative. I’m still working on getting set up on a special server,will let you know if and when it’s operational. If you know any rich Saudi’s, Turks or Canadians for that matter, please don’t hesitate to contact me.