THE ONE PERCENT THEORY

IMO; the media is lame and broken, helping lead my country down a path of self destruction and self consumption.

This needs to change as soon as possible; and I have a proposal: THE ONE PERCENT THEORY

The One Percent Theory (the OPT) is as follows:

Any issue that our governemnt undertakes, any issue at all, has at least one percent of the population paying attention and wanting to be involved in the discussion and can provide useful intuitive aspects that might otherwise go overlooked and undiscussed by our government.

1% of 300 million is 3 million people.

The challenge is how to get 3 million people into one room and have some sort of order to the dialogue; and the answer is the internet and computers.

You might say that 3 million opinions are too many to listen to, but I would guess that if 3 million people all voiced concern about an issue that many would have the same concern to voice.

Then our elected officials whom work for us, the legal citizens of this great nation, should be forced to respond in writting on the internet to the most popular concerns voiced by the general public.

I feel that every non-emergency type legislation should have a new process where we utilize this one percent theory to best shape all newly written legislation.

No more secret legislation kept out of the general public's eye, like the amnesty bill that neither Obama nor Clinton nor McCain nor Huckabee nor Bloomberg stood up to demand that the civil rights of American citizens never again be violated via any secret legislative process!

It doesn't matter what the issue. What matters is that we should no longer underutilize the most powerful resource available to the legislative process; the concerned American citizen. And computers now provides the capacity to fill this critical lacking component (the concerned legal citizen) in a world that moves so fast that merely relying upon the election cycle to stamp out corrupt govt is practically obsolete and ineffective.

But we need the govt to provide the leadership to the general public and to direct them to the internet place of meeting so the public does not act upon their own and scattered across the virtual landscape.

No person would be left out of the discussion; not gender, not skin color, not income level, not education level, nothing but the the lack of will to become involved would keep a person from joining a discussion and making observations about any specified topic as it approaches legislative fruition.