Should the USA become a democracy?

[JK4Woods]

I have a few thoughts/questions that I felt like sharing and what to know what others think:

In an effort of full disclosure these thoughts have all come after hearing on the radio this morning that no republican voted for impeachment and only 3 democrats voted no on impeachment. It made me speculate on whether congress is actually voting to represent their districts or just voting along party lines.
I don't intend for this to be a discussion on the impeachment so if we could keep that out of focus I would appreciate it.

From what I understand we are a Republic where we elect officials to represent us in matters relating to the government. (I'm sure there is far more to that then I am saying, but this is a simplified generalization.)

Is it actually possible for one person to accurately represent approx. 747,000 people? I don't believe it is.
I think we all are far too diverse and unique in our decision making and ideals for it to work.

With the advancements in technology and communication do we really need to continue having representatives in the government?

It seems we are able to spend an inordinate amount of time on social media and our devices and keeping up with the Kardashians or whoever is popular now, so what would be the issues with having one website where all bills and things could be voted on democratically? (I'm sure there are issues but I haven't delved into it enough to really think them through as yet.)

That presupposes a high level of honesty and elimination of corruption not only in the voting public, but also in the organization which produces the software, hardware and oversight of the tabulations and final pronouncement of the winners.
So easy to subvert...

Btw it happens in our current situation.
Electronic voting machines in four Midwest states were hooked up to the internet for over four months... WHEN THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE CONNECTED TO IT..!!

I am sure it was a beta test for the deep state hackers to figure out early how to compromise the electronic voting machines come next year’s election.

Forbes Magazine published an artical about it:


https://fortune.com/2019/08/08/swing-st ... eport/amp/

Best of luck keeping our eroding freedoms...

[Summerwind]

What I mean is that too many Latter-day Saints think that the Lord will shield us from the "beast" of Revelation 13 without our having even tried to learn, uphold, and abide by the principles of the UDD Constitution, and in spite of our ignorance of the new world order conspiracy and support of certain elements of it. In other words, too many Church members have ignored the admonitions and commandments to do our assigned homework.

YOU said UDD Constitution. I guess maybe it's a typo? But these are your words.

The Constitution has wonderful eternal principles in it, but is not the gospel of Jesus Christ nor is it what we are saved by.

[lundbaek]

Yuppers, UDD was definitely a typo on my part. Summerwind and I will have to agree to disagree about the intended significance of the US Constitution to Latter-day Saints.