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Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA
FuzzNugget writes "No, you didn't just stumble upon The Onion by mistake. Ars Technica reports that Obama's 'reform' panel will report directly to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence who arguably lied to Congress about whether the NSA conducted dragnet surveillance of Americans' communications. But is anyone really surprised?"
Not having ranked voting is not the problem. Near-universal suffrage is the problem.
Under the original voting systems of the country, only male land-owners could vote. Oh, today that sounds so cruel, so mean, so discriminatory. Bullcrap -- what it did was guarantee that the people making the decisions had something to lose if the decisions were bad. In today's terms, they had 'skin in the game'. The landowners had every personal incentive to strive to improve the country and society, because you can't pick the land up and move it somewhere else, after all.
Today's system of near-universal suffrage just means the people who have nothing and never will have anything, simply vote to take everything from those who have it. Which means those who do have something spend all their time and money defending themselves against the mob (via buying the representatives outright) instead of making the whole society better.
Forget about tweaking the voting system; if you want better results, make only landowners and (since you'll insist on making things "more fair") holders of professional licenses, like doctors, lawyers, skilled tradesmen, etc. be able to vote. Those on welfare don't vote -- if we have to feed your ass, you don't get to decide a damn thing.
Those who will gasp in horror at this very idea, don't worry, this will never happen until after the glorious revolution.