Outsourced Democracy

Scott Adams took a break from vainly trying to convince people that stealing copyrighted material is, in fact, stealing to suggest a novel idea. His basic idea is to leverage the innovations which have given us barely comprehensible, hesitantly English speaking tech support workers to solve the problems of our democracy:

It's common knowledge that all major government decisions in the United States are made via a process that Thomas Jefferson described in the constitution as 'lobbyists bribing weasels'. Voters attempt to solve this problem by electing the weasels who do the best job lying about their intentions to change the system. So far this hasn't worked.

That's why we need to outsource the important decisions to India. I'm sure a consulting firm in India could help the United States come up with a coherent energy policy, a plan for universal health care, a cure for global warming, and an anti-terrorism plan.

He further goes on to suggest that these plans would then be debated in the public sphere for implementation by our politicians. Having the plans available, though, would allow for public debate which is completely lacking now.