The idea of the states being united was forged at the beginning of our government and is codified in the Constitution. The Constitution exists in many peoples' minds as the bedrock. It would take a great deal to fundamentally alter it. We would be moving away from the original concept of the United States. Of course, as we speak we are going through some fundamental changes, are we not?
We were very proud of our Constitution. After all, it is the creation of the Constitution that we celebrate every 17. of May, our national day. But it contained some ugly sentences, like that jews and jesuites are not allowed into our country. That sort of rubbish removes any magic feeling of the whole Constitution. - These are articles, out of several, that is being totally ignored today.
There is a broad majority that wants the Constitution changed, but the technicality behind a change makes it possible for a small minority to block it, - or block changes that brings any meaning. Deadlock, you know. What would be the best is that the military takes over in a coup. That's my suggestion.
That's easy. Just show up down town with some of our old Panther tanks (let's hope they start, they were notorious during my stunt in the military) and let one of the generals show up on TV, and that would be it, really. They have done this in several South American states and in Pakistan recently, - so why not Norway?
I've seen people break down in tears because they went through so much trouble, tried to vote and were unjustly turned away. Pleading with them to try again doesn't work. For them, it's just too degrading. This does happen here.
This will not happen here because that 'everybody' (even convicts in the jails and immigrants that not yet have status as Norwegians have the right to vote - local governments) gets a card in the post confirming that they have the right to vote. Still the participation is falling. The young people does not seem to bother.
Students from Eastern Europe tried to be 'election observers' by the last Norwegian election - they were at first waved off as 'unnecessary', but did the observation anyway. They registered several issues that should be adressed, - to the shock and horror oof most Norwegians.
Like that we no longer have an envelope that we put the voting card in. Your vote is just a paper folded over. Now it could be possible for people around to see who you are voting for. Scandal, if you ask me. Then they have noticed that in poor regions of Norway, people tend to stay in long cues to vote, while in richer neighborhoods there are not cues at all. They also noticed that it was technically possible to vote on several places at once, under certain circumstances, - if you had just recently moved from one adress to another, within certain dates, but they did not find any examples of this happening (as one paper wrote), but that was because they could not access the counting process since they were not accepted as official observers!
If you look for the perfect democracy; look elsewhere. In other words: Norway should have a international observer corps observing next election and authorities (the illuminati, you know!) should make the changes that this observer corps advice them to.
But what destroys our democracy is our media. Before we had a rigid system regulating exposure time on TV assuring that the different parties got equal TV time. Further; the media was more diversified. Not anymore. Now, the conservative media push 'Phil Gramm sort of guys' down our throats. This is a problem in most of the western world and should be adressed.
The worst example is Russia. There the communist party has been blocked from the media alltogether during elections. They still got 25% of the votes! Had the communists participated in the media on an equal bases as the other parties they just might have won!
