Direct Democracy
Motivation: Failure of representative democracy, Earth 2025
Article: Death of representative democracy
Representative democracy failed on Earth in 2025. This failure became evident in the international support of Israel's genocide against Palestine citizens. Democratic governments across USA, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, France and other countries support Israel with weapons exports. These governments are complicit is this horrific genocide. Yet, citizens of these nations are against weapons exports to Israel. Above 51% of eligible voters are likely against weapons exports to Israel, because USA has $34 trillion in national debt (120% of GDP). Weapons exports to Israel are foreign aid and a major expense on USA and other democracies. National debt exceeding GDP is mirrored in other Western democracies as well. Yet, representative government leaders in US Congress, many of whom receive donations from a pro-Israel lobbying group called AIPAC, pass legislation for aid to Israel in the form of weapons exports. This is failure of representative democracy. Representatives failed to act in the interest of who they represent.
In the Internet age, representative democracy is no longer needed. Representative democracy was needed because millions of citizens could not directly vote on legislation. They would vote once every few years, electing representatives who would vote on behalf of the citizens who elected them. In today's age, billions of people use Internet applications. We can ascertain digital identity with identity verification platforms like Clear. We are able to ascertain human identity online and build platforms to support billions of users.
The Matrix Government is built on the idea of Direct Democracy. People directly vote on legislation in Direct Democracy. Voting technology is electronic, transparent, open-source and independently verifiable. Should we gift $10 billion of arms to Israel? 300 million Americans should vote on it, not 535 senators.
The Matrix Government is a new idea of government. Citizens embedded in the very fabric of government without middlemen. Direct Democracy is the soul of The Matrix Government. Direct Democracy may be superseded in turbulent times by a single authority figure. This is inspired by republic because there are times when one person must decide the future of a nation.
The Matrix Government manifesto:
1. Direct Democracy, mobile-based voting for all citizens on all legislation
2. Service government that, once democratically elected, provides services to citizens for a fixed yearly fee
3. Maintain libraries, public property, transit, and welfare
4. Government finances are continuously audited by a transparent publicly verified open-source auditor bot
5. Profits from certain enterprises funds loss leaders like free healthcare, education, housing for all, national parks, and libraries
6. Expansive system of government to stand for elections in many states, countries and planets (The Matrix Government constituencies)
7. Government websites in different The Matrix Government constituencies streamlined for cohesive international and interplanetary user experience. Same architecture for Health Ministry website in different constituencies. Expect the same standard of healthcare in every The Matrix Government constituency. Extend to government services, international visas, company registration and banking
8. Bitcoin-gold exchange rate set by The Matrix Government
9. Taxes are fixed fees, not percentage
10. The Matrix Government is a money-making machine that makes itself more efficient over time with science. Efficiency gains translate to profits spent for good of citizens.