Reply #7: Of the people, by the people, for the people. [View All]

[Berry Cool]

It's such a simple idea...maybe it's TOO simple for some people to grasp.

But that's democracy. In less than 10 words.

If we give up on that, we give up on America.

It's one of the reasons I'd like to see us do away with the electoral college and choose our presidents by popular vote. It may be too much to ask that we abandon the idea of representative government, but I do think it's time to abandon the concept of the representative electors. The one the PEOPLE directly choose should be president...not winner-take-all by such arbitrary things as states.

And I have not yet really done a "tour of America," but the more I think about it, the more I want to. When I was a child, my family was too poor for us to go on vacation touring the country and seeing the sights important in its history. I feel as if this is a hole in my experience that I should go about filling soon.