back...and we're not insane.

For anyone who would think that having an election on the Internet is insane, have you been following the methods we have of presidential party nominations? IE: caucuses and primaries, some states not being counted because they went too early, etc? You're kidding me, right?

The whole reason the current system exists is because it is based on the bad technologies of previous times: quill pens, bad roads, human slaves. Why do we tie ourselves to these archaic systems of self-management?

The answer is simple and depressing. It's because of demagogy. Politicians exploit the current system to get into positions of power, and even if they have good intentions, the political system itself gives them and their cronies too much power without equaling accountability.

No self-respecting web 2.0 site would allow such an imbalance.