Never before has Democracy been under such a serious assault. Large Corporations, NGO's and proffessional Organisations (such as lawyers, doctors and various Regulating Bodies with other interest groups), have discovered the effective power of employing Lobbyists to push their case. The chance that any of these ambitions are anything other than an attempt to manipulate Politicians and Beaurocrates in favour of their aims, is very unlikely.
How does the Voter feel with all this going on? Not to put to fine a slant on it, "Gutted" would be a good description of the feeling of having been ripped over.
There might be a very simple way to swing the pendulum back in favour of the voter. There have been some attempts in the past (UK's YouGov) but these have been more like blogs. They take too long to interact with and do not provide quick feedback, thereby do not quickly reward the voter for his input.
Set up a web site with current issues grouped by about 7 interest groups. Under each of these a series of sliding horizontal graphs representing Yes / No / Don't Know to each of a series of un-ambiguous questions. Obviously each user would have to log in with full name, DOB and on other selected question. The programme would take note of the IP address of the loggers computer and block it from more than one response in say 5 hours, to avoid multiple clicks.
I predict that after a few months, the Politicians will be checking this site before embarking on new policies.
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