Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
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Re: Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
#2Why not make the threshold dynamic?
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#3There's a hockey stick growth curve for you.
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#4"We were really hoping that you'd voice your dissatisfaction with government in a very limited way and over trivial things. Now that you're calling us out on real issues, we're going to make it much, much harder!"
Re: Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
#5Because they'd like to be less responsive to citizen concerns?
10,000,000 / 25,000 = 400 responses/yr. I'd like to believe our government could deliver slightly more than one well-considered response per day.
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#6Why not make the threshold dynamic?
I suspect they wanted to keep things as simple as possible. But yeah, shooting for 1 or 2% of the total amount of registrants would be a future-proof solution.
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#7Why not make the threshold dynamic?
They could simply reply to the x most-signed petitions every y weeks.
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#8I wish there was more resolution along the x-axis; I'd really when that inflection point occurred and what triggered it. There's exponential growth, and there's literal overnight success, and this appears to be the latter.
Also, generic vague whining about the government only pretending to care.
Re: Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
#9So, what happened some time around late November 2012?
EDIT: One possible answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064211
Re: Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
#10The founders of the United States knew that a representative democracy (what they termed a "republic") has some distinct advantages over direct democracy. This fact was discussed at length in the jointly authored Federalist Papers.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html
History shows that this fact is rediscovered in each new generation through hard experience, on a bipartisan basis.