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Subject: [WDDM] What is the AIM of
WDDM?
Direct Democracy
It is difficult to go in two
directions at once. I bring these questions up so we may discuss it a bit. Of
course this is my opinion; I am looking for more information.
There seem to be two popular
modes of DD. One beggars the people to make all decisions. Some call this
“True Democracy” or other term. This model usually eliminates government as we
know it. No Presidents, Prime Ministers, Senate, Congress, Parliament just the
people making decisions. There is a void however, how would the decisions be
carried out? How would they be evaluated and who would administrate the
financing? There would have to be some huge administrative mechanism to
accomplish the decisions of the people. How would this be supervised?
Another question is who would be
voting? Would the elite be the majority participating in these elections?
Would minorities simply be discounted?
My questions to WDDM is: Does
WDDM want to support this type of “True Democracy” at this time? Have we
progressed to the point we could do so?
The present representative
system has rules and constitutional requirements about equal rights, Liberty,
minority rights etc. This system built over many years now has some safe
guards. However there are times this system makes decisions which are contrary
to the majority of the people.
The second method is the “Swiss
model” which retains the “Representative System” but adds Initiative and
Binding Referendum. This system oversees the Representatives and provides the
people the tools to directly alter or stop any and all legislation the people
disagree with. With this oversight, the Representatives are more cautious in
their decisions, knowing the people can change the decisions as well as recall
the Representative.
Indeed, if the people wanted to
eliminate Representative Government, they could build the necessary
administrative mechanism; develop rules, laws and constitutional requirements
necessary to accomplish this using the Swiss model. Once the necessary systems
were functioning, the people could use the Swiss System and simply pass an
Initiative implementing the new way.
I
think WDDM needs to decide specifically what its AIM is and how to carry it
out. I ask that we deliberate the above questions with much discussion. What
do you think?
Kind Regards, Bruce
Bruce
Eggum
Gresham Wisconsin, USA
http://www.doinggovernment.com/
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