GMOs Scary or not?

Meerataila

The people who are 'informed' are generally at least as crazy and dumb as the craziest, dumbest regular old citizen you can find, and on top of that in order to reach their position of power these people are often far more ruthless, nasty, deceitful, and in general sociopathic.

^^THIS

Two things:

1) Stop voting for them. Voter turnout, in the US, is dismal at best during the midterms and not much better during presidential election years, so exercise your right to vote; it'll make more of a difference during midterms, where only 1 out of 3 Americans typically even bother to show up.

2) Even if pure democracy was a good idea, which it isn't, the cost of that would be extremely prohibitive. We can't get the US government to spend money on things that people actually need; there's not a chance that the people or the states would go for this on that reason alone and that's what you would need for it to be a thing - a new Constitutional amendment.

If they are lying through their teeth, as most sociopathic, deceitful people do, how do I know who to vote for? Especially if they don't have much of a transparent history in politics, or are fairly new to the scene.

I suppose if people really want to keep representatives instead of just going the direct route, we could make them contractually obligated to do everything in their power to fulfill their campaign promises on a specific timetable. Failure to do so could automatically result in either automatic impeachment, a nationwide vote to decide whether to impeach or not, and/or jury selection of random citizens to determine whether or not the failure to fulfill a promise on schedule was justified and if not whether to simply remove the culprit from office, or fine the culprit, or jail the culprit, or all of the above.

Jailing representatives for failure to get other representatives to vote for their platform? Seems like a great way to attract good people. Maybe if we paid them less too. If you really care then get involved, otherwise you're just part of the problem.

Have you seen our politicians? I'd take a random criminal out of super max over most of the politicians we've had. Better yet, trade them one for one. Politician goes to super max, prisoner goes to Congress and the White House. Unlike the politician, there is at least a chance the prisoner was innocent.