Ideas For Democracy

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This is the work of John Manimas Medeiros, but no copyrights shall be claimed here -- in the spirit of real democracy.

 

An open-ended series on democracy, government, politics, economics, the social sciences, directed primarily to address the obstacles to real democracy in the United States of America and how to overcome them, by identifying problems and proposing solutions.  The primary obstacles to democracy in the United States of America are the two-party tyranny and the development of an entrenched nobility.  The Constitution states that there shall be no titles of nobility.  I am certain that the founders wanted no nobility, but they couldn't say that in 1787 when they needed the support of colonial nobility to get the new country started.  Saying "no nobility" would have instilled a fear that like some Tories, the Americanized nobility were at risk of arrest and execution.  This fear developed into reality shortly thereafter in France.  So, we need to replace, not reform, the so-called "two-party" system, and we need to take legal action to empower the people and remove all inappropriate privileges and dysfunctional manipulation of government by the nobility and the corporations.  I propose a political revolution because violence would fail.

 

Purpose and goals:  (This IF Democracy list started July 2015)

IFD = IF Dee = "IF Democracy," and means IF Americans stop resisting democracy, we could transform the American dysfunctional political process into a real democracy, like the founders of the United States of America intended.

 

DO NOT SPLIT YOUR VOTE --- See #25 below. Use (One Party) Voting.

#1] Transform the Two-Party Plutocracy, a form of tyranny, into a multi-party system. (Transform).

#2] Develop intensive and extensive protection for the right to vote and a legitimate electoral process. (Develop).

#3] Discuss, define and protect the economic rights of American citizens.  Develop programs that enable full employment of all able to work and identify candidates for civil service and military service appointments: Creating an (Inclusive Economy).

#4] Build a cooperative relationship between private industrial and commercial enterprise and the labor force. Cooperation between (Labor and Management).

#5] Develop a free-market economic system that removes government involvement in business and business involvement in government. Separate (Business and Government).

#6] By law legislators may receive requests, suggestions, comments, or advice only from individual citizens and not from any business entity. (End Lobbying).

#7] Require that all expenditures of tax funds be identified by amount and purpose. No (Taxation) without accountability.

#8] Improve public education. Measure learning with a national system of (Developmental) Grading.

#9] Develop effective programs to discourage drug abuse and addiction by reframing issue as the problem of (Self-Medication).

#10] Develop rules for candidates for legislative or executive positions in (Public Office).

#11] Direct science and technology toward the public good, major environmental protection projects and protection of our primary (Economic Resources).

#12] Truly equal rights and democratic ethnic and race relations require careful and effective (Protection of Minorities).

#13] In a real democracy the economy belongs to the people and (Investment Gambling) is carefully regulated and investment income is fairly taxed.

#14] Food and agricultural security require careful regulation of the (Free Market A) system.

#15] Right to know about government control of the economy: Directory of federal government (Subsidies).

#16] Right to bear arms and firearms safety, non-violent (Citizenship) .

#17] Police protection and community policing, public demonstration, debate, and protest at public (Meeting Places) .

#18] Foreign policy and the frustration (Theory of War) .

#19] Prisons and criminal justice policy: (Restorative Practices) .

#20] Reconciliation with Native States and safety for: (Tribal Societies) .

#21] Agriculture and food and distribution in a truly (Free Market B) .

#22] Citizen privacy, licensing, subscriptions, intellectual property, and the (Information Machine) .

#23] Public education policies and standards, the most important (Task of Society) .

#24] Four steps to execute and why they will occur (As Planned) .

#25] Do not split your vote! Use (One Party) Voting. -- in process.