Re: Democracy needs to be fixed

The most critical need we have is to restore to America the representative
democracy our founders intended us to have.  They did not want political
parties here, yet they emerged and have not been removed from our electoral
processes.  This puts a layer -- a filter -- between the people and their
elected representatives which should not exist.  We do not nominate
political parties.  We do not vote on political parties.  We do not elect
political parties.  Yet everything of a political nature is done through and
in the name of one party or another.  This is a grievous wrong and is slowly
but surely destroying representative government in America.  We, the people,
can and must take back our electoral and governance processes.

Stanley F. Nelson
Dallas.