Big cheers to John Dvorak of PC Magazine who today called for devising a distributed network that would allow Congress to get the hell out of Washington, DC and back to “work” in their home districts. For good.

It’s not hard — under the spending-bender Republicans — to see the current system of physically centralized democracy has essentially failed. I’m not an anarchist, and so I definitely favor a system in which our elected officials get together once in a while in our nation’s ex-capital but, for the most part, would otherwise never set foot in Washington. (My colleague Cicero might concur.)

I should note that, while I love the idea of Congress adopting To the People’s motto (“Get away from government. Go To the People.”), I don’t support Dvorak’s call for mandatory voting.

[Cross-posted at To the People, where we'd miss Ron Paul and that's about it.]

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