What you read today may be bettered tomorrow!
Like any important new idea, this Charter is the product of one person’s inspiration. Its realisation, however, depends upon a vast number grasping the point, seeing the power of an authoritative, democratic counter-Charter from the People to those elected. A decisive, pivotal document, opposite to the historical norm.
It is necessary for voters to see the merits of calm, creative, discussion by Electors, Taxpayers and Customers being harvested rather than lost. By the best being focused within three parallel, consultative “Prisms”, mostly on-line, that cross-check each other. That multiply citizen authority, with “laser-like” potential. Away from the rotten Parties, government and legalized defrauding. Clear of any EU intrusion. That is continuous and helpful. That provides the real answer to this “democratic deficit”, created by the Parties by exporting to the EU key controls over our politics, without any electoral approval or permission. (For “deficit” read theft! For, that is what it is, of power and wealth, on a massive scale.) Then, it requires their creative rather than petty, point-scoring participation. The result is not mere discussion but rich invention. Mutual help for worthwhile purposes. The focus changes from government by others to self-government and growth. Indeed, Parallel Democracy becomes an ideal, shared, training-ground for citizenship.
Parallel Democracy (also called Super-Democracy, to emphasize electoral supremacy), I believe, is a new branch of democracy. At first glance, “democracy is just democracy”. How can there be a new development? It is made possible by the present system being so contaminated by the main Parties. They block alternative viewpoints so effectively that we in Britain rarely think of replacing them. Yet, guilty of what amounts to criminal behaviour in their misuse of democracy, they cannot be trusted with government. Each has to be rebuilt, by us not only them, in nationwide (and beyond) cooperation.
What may be better can be because of you!
Parallel/Super-Democracy, as a new system of respectful, generous politics, can help fulfill your finest views of “democracy”. Because it does not belong to the bullying Big Brothers of the political and commercial world. Yes, they will attempt to take it over or derail it. But, the massed intelligence and resources of free people can be very difficult to block further. Rotten politics has provoked a better one.
Take a slice of public business and contribute your best! One important point. Quick, off-the-cuff reactions and comment are for the tired, infuriating form of current politics. This new form of public conferring rewards deep thought that has been shaped and reshaped, perhaps for years or countless times. That is not to say that each excellent idea and choice comment is not needed or invited. Definitely not! Only that standards must be raised across the board. It must aim far from what we endure now.
All has to be based upon a People’s Code, a Text, agreed and developed universally, that disciplines government, institutions of various kinds at home and abroad, plus corporations that take us over for profit, destroying the liberties, wealth and other riches our children should inherit. It can be explained as a 21st century Magna Carta of democracy. (Democracy was beyond the possibilities and understanding of politics in the year 1215.)
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