Elections

You may live in a country where you get to vote. How useful is voting? At present not very. One successful politician in my country said that if voting changed anything they would abolish it! A bit harsh but I could go with "if voting changed anything important ..."
Where to start. Firstly we don't get to vote very often. How does that work? Basically an antiquated system from a time when events moved at snails pace. I want to vote several times a day. I want government to be open and responsive to my views. And so I imagine do you. And we can. Watch this space.
At elections we get to vote i constituencies which are geographical. Why? I have a few issues in common with my local neighbours and these are mostly dealt with by local government. On a bigger scale I have more in common with folks all over the place who share my age, my background, my employment, my interests, my attitudes etc.. That is how we should vote.
At elections we mostly just get to vote for folks in political parties. That needs  to change. We need in government people who listen to the electors and who don't give their influence to a political agenda. Why don't I get regular e-mails from my elected representative asking my opinion? Because he/she is not interested in my view unless at election time.

Messy

Life is messy and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. Most messy is politics. Politics is the essential unending process which determines how we get along with one another and it is currently broken. Here's the problem - political parties. They are destroying politics. Think about this. In democracies we are allowed to vote and appoint a representative government. It doesn't happen. Everyone who is elected and the vast majority of folks who govern us are in a political party whereas the vast majority of us the voters are not members of political parties. Government is not representative. Also - folks who join political parties are not like the rest of us. These are people who check in their individuality at the desk. They buy into a package of ideas and they vote along party lines. We need to curtail the power of political parties and restore the power to you and me and that vast majority of folk who are not in a party.
Fortunately the solution is staring us in the face, you as you read this and me as I write. The internet will give us all access to decision making. A bit of tweaking and we can have open source government. More to follow - watch this space.