change the system 1.0

main idea: there is little if some momentum in the politicians to pursue direct democracy. the obvious reason is that it would constrain their power. however, direct democracy can be "simulated" within the usual representative democracy framework by an organisation which manages an internet based referendum system open to all citizens who want to register. this organisation sends (if elected) representatives in the parliament who are obliged to vote according to the results of the referendums held by the organization. This would be a possibility to introduce some degree of direct democracy without constitutional change.


are you fed up with politicians promising heaven on elections and doing nothing of these when in power?
it is a rhetoric question of course. everyone is... well, at least me and my friends are

there are simple strategies, which might give rise to a remedy.

the technology (yes, it is also a question of technology) is already out there, and i think it is a question of time the change will happen.

but now to the crucial question "how?":
of course the key word is direct democracy, also called pure democracy. The problem is that the transition from the representative democracy, which we have mostly nowadays, has to be secured via legal acts passed in parliaments by politicians, which will lose power as a result of this change. Obviously they are not willing to do so! However, there is a way to achieve this within the today's framework of representative democracy:
Imagine a group of citizens creating an organization, with the only goal to pursue the pure democracy. We call it PDO (pure democracy organization), however according to the legal circumstances it might need be a political party and not just an organization. The one and only point in the program is to organize and manage internal internet-based voting system. What do i mean: every citizen is allowed to open a secure account and through this account She has the privilege to pre-vote on broad spectrum of issues. Next, this PDO will run on elections and (ideally) will send representatives in the parliament. Here comes the big difference: the representatives of the PDO are obliged to vote on the acts of the parliament, exactly as the registered citizens did on the pre-voting sessions.
Still, the representatives of the PDO do have their opinion but their only choice is to convince the people to vote in a certain manner, e.g. by debating in the parliament. When it comes to the voting, the decision of the voters in the internal pre-voting system is the final word.
Isn't it simple.

A possible nice sounding exaggeration of this idea, which is more like a detail of a sci-fi movie would be the following: while the parliament is debating on different issues the citizens who are not fighting evil aliens :), watch tv, make their minds and vote in real time via the remote of their media-centers (computer+tv+...). Thus the role of the parties and their representatives is to convince the citizens to vote in a certain way by live debating, rather than take the decisions.