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(A)
1. The failure of civilizations is a failure of leadership.
2. Our civilization has failed as evidenced by its wealth
being used to build up rivals. Rivals buy control of what used to belong to us with
wealth we outsourced to them.
3. Therefore, our selection process does not produce capable
leaders.
(B)
1. Economic power currently buys political power.
2. Economic power does not = leadership skill.
3. Economic power does not = representation of the
national interest.
4. Economic power does not care about national
security or sovereignty.
(C)
1. Just as there was a separation of Church and State, there
now must be a separation of Economic power from Political power.
2. Economic Inequality is much less corrosive to society than
Political Inequality.
3. We are facing a crisis that requires the power of the
national mind to be harnessed in order to generate as many solutions as
possible.
4. Currently, only economic power is allowed representation
in politics, to the exclusion of the people. This monopoly on power must be
broken.
5. Therefore, money must be removed from politics. Electoral
systems must be reformed to regulate the influence of established political
parties and eliminate the infrastructure of their campaign war machines. Voting
systems should be amended to offer the people real opportunity to participate.
Elections should be about ideas, not money.
6. Political parties are a great threat to national security;
they put their own interest above that of the nation. We must always be on
guard against the political-industrial complex; the potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The decline of the West is systemic. It is not in any one failed
policy or leader but a result of an evolved form of organization that has led
to a state of constant failure and an inability to adapt to a changing external
environment.
If you are living in the West chances are you live under the
control of two or more dominant political parties. The existence of more than
one party provides you with some protection from human rights abuse because if
one party goes to far in its abuse of the people the other party will win the
next election. While better than living under one party control, this is still
not an ideal system and is not what true democracy looks like.
Political parties are machines that run on money whose
objective is to win elections. Messages are tightly controlled, photo-ops
carefully choreographed, talking points annoyingly repeated. Entire staffs are
hired to develop marketing plans designed to strategize what segments of the
market are to be targeted at what time and with what message. The entire
political process has become dehumanized. Politics has become big business most
likely due to the fact that the cogs who currently occupy the machine share the
same trained incapacities of a modern business “education”.
Brand names win elections not ideas. In these modern times
no one wins after an election has been held. No one but the powerful interests
behind the major political parties and the well-paid shills who occupy the
seats once designated for representatives of the people.
Is it any wonder why no one shows up to vote, why no one
gets involved? Many know full well how the system works and what reasonable
person would want to commit their life to towing the party line. It takes a
certain breed of arrogance and incompetence to suckle at the public trough as a
career backbencher. It takes another breed of psychopathy to steal from the
public as an unelected senator.
They have made the cynical calculation that the people don’t
care. That the majority have fallen for the cult of the self and worship
materialism, the god of distraction. You must prove them wrong. The public
interest will only ever be defended by the public. Therefore, any political
system that hopes to serve the public interest must not exclude the great
majority of its citizens from participation in the political process.
Political equality is the great equalizer. If we could enact
reforms that would break the monopoly of power held by the established parties,
then each locality would be free to elect local representatives based on the
ideas of the individual candidates. Those representatives would not be
constrained by the dictates of the parties. They would be free to actually
represent their constituents.
The campaign would not be fought by wealthy organizations in
30-second substance-less ads on national television; it would be fought in the
webpages of official party policy documents and in local debates and local
speeches among local citizens. The campaign would not be a battle for control
of territory but a conversation among neighbors who are concerned about the
issues facing them.
The objective would not be party victory; it would be
national victory.
The objective would not be party victory; it would be national victory.
The problem we face in modern democracy is a lack of choice.
We have major parties that operate within the rigid framework of the modern political-industrial
complex. This constrains our decision making process and limits our potential
policy options.
Not every citizen has access to a national campaign
organization and a state of the art voter database. Does the existence of those
privileges justify the monopoly on power enjoyed by those who poses them?
This state of affairs is bringing about our long-term
national suicide.
All because those with privilege put the preservation of
privilege above the preservation of the nation. This is the definition of
globalism; loyalty to wealth, status, and private business venture over loyalty
to the continued existence of your sovereign nation. This is the neo-liberal
ideology of the global aristocracy.
We are living in a New World Order where national boarders
are being replaced with class boarders. One world where the worst aspects of
communism and capitalism have combined to create a hybrid monster system of
global scope.
If your nation is to survive and not be absorbed into this
global feudalism you need to separate economic power from political power.
-No political advertising permitted, all debate takes place
in local forums, local candidates, stick to the issues and no corporate
control/sponsorship of the forums
-No campaign staff permitted, no “strategic outreach” teams/
marketing contractors, candidates should be able to stand on their own two feet
and speak their truth, candidates should stand amongst each other with
political equality, this way the established powers with big campaigns would
not monopolize the process, this way decisions would be made based more on
policy and less on the ability to get the message out through a national
organization, no public relations/ spin doctors
-No government money used to advertise policies of parties
currently in power
- Limit campaign donations to $20 per citizen per year with
no tax deduction given
-No corporate donations, no lobbying, no special access to
public officials
-No party control over how representatives choose to vote,
all votes = free votes
-Enact a single transferable ballot proportional
representation system, whereby parties who only get a minority of the votes do
not get 100% power and voters can vote freely based on conscience without being
forced into strategic voting
-Bring democracy to the senate, or any other legislative
body filled with appointed “representatives”
-Ensure that watchdog organizations are not appointed/
controlled by the people they are supposed to be watching
-Ensure the speaker of the house is non-partisan, is
selected either through promotion from within the civil service or elected as
an independent
-Increase oversight of the financial affairs of
representatives to prevent corruption
-Index the pay and benefits of representatives to the
average pay and benefits of the people, give them an incentive to improve
things for the country not just the 1%
-Authorize the security services to keep a close eye on
representatives to prevent foreign interference in our political affairs
The idea is that if the monopoly on power held by the major
parties were broken we would have a much better chance at reversing the decline.
As things stand the major parties endorse outsourcing while much of the public
does not. There is a fairly commonly held view that we outsourced our economy
to China, and if the public were ever allowed a chance to bring the jobs home
they would take it.
Take for example the last American election. Both candidates
had to say that they were against outsourcing and they would re-negotiate trade
agreements as they always say but never do. Americans knew nothing would change
but they only had two parties to vote for and both have allowed American
industrial capacity to be outsourced over the past 30 years. America did not
have a real choice.
Break the old party monopolies, divorce money from power,
and we have a chance.
