Achieving True Democracy: Ending Political Apathy
This is part 10 of my “Achieving True Democracy: A New Breed of Party as Realistic Next Step” article series and the last part of it. Here you can find part 1, the introduction for the article series, and part 2, a short description of the idea of the Proxy Party, and part 3, a description of how a party program should look like, and part 4, about finding, prioritizing, and voting on topics, and part 5 about going beyond a ‘simple’ direct democracy, and part 6 about an efficient and effective grassroots democratic party, and part 7 about safeguarded information and decision processes, and part 8 about a 1:1 transfer to parliament, and part 9 with some questions and answers about my concept of the proxy party.
I hope I succeeded in outlining a cohesive and realistic way to create a new breed of a political party as a democratic parliamentarian champion: a party that is grassroots democratic yet effective and efficient. Following the advice of Buckminster Fuller, it creates a new and far better alternative to represent us in parliament and replace the old political parties.
Of cause, the sketch provided in this short book can be only a start. Rules and processes will have to be refined and tested and optimized. The new culture and principles will have to be cultivated and implemented on a broad scale.
Culture, principles, rules, and processes combined will ensure that the Proxy Party can’t warp into the stuff the normal political party is made from. It will stay true to democracy, transparency, and representation.
I invite you to imagine a political party…
… that asks you for your input and actually listens to it.
… that will focus on the priorities of its members.
… that is concentrated to find underlying checked facts before discussing solutions.
… that is interested in letting us know the whole story about the problems instead of giving us its own one-sided view of things.
… that only supports the individual political decision-making process of its members instead of prescribing it.
… that leaves the important decision to its members (if they want)
… that is truly transparent and can prove it walks the talk.
… that is focused to represent the will of its member base as exactly as possible.
We can make this true. We can upgrade democracy.
We just have to put trust in ourselves and our fellow citizens (and design the system well) to be successful and change the world for the better, instead of watching the creeping dismantling of democracy.
“A great democracy has got to be progressive
or it will soon too cease to be great or a democracy.”Theodore Roosevelt
This is an excerpt from my book “Achieving True Democracy: A New Breed of Party as Realistic Next Step” which can be bought at Amazon or Smashwords or directly from me via PayHip.
If you want to learn more about the idea, visit me on my Website or YouTube or Pinterest or Twitter or SlideShare or listen to my Podcast.
This version 1.0 represents my current thoughts on the topic. I hope that it can be used as a starting point to kindle more discussions from other like-minded individuals. What is important, though, is the guiding principle presented behind the words in this book, not the words themselves.
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