re: wanted our little political party to act as an assembly

[Richard Moore <rkm(at)quaylargo.com>]

Antonio Rossin wrote:

> > Richard,
> >
> >
> > thanks for your suggestions.

You're most welcome.

> > The real problem, here, is not how to organize the
> > democratic
> > assembly. It is about how to make the people attend into
> > it.

Activists have that same problem everywhere. You are not  alone. There are various reasons why people don't want to participate. For one thing, they realize it is very difficult to impact the political system, and for another they have probably found that 'public meetings' of all kinds are usually frustrating and a waste of time.

That's why I suggest in the Framework to begin with a 'whole system' process  like a Wisdom Council. This is easier to manage, because you only need twelve participants. Wherever this has been tried, a great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by the quality of the results, both in the participants and in those who attend the public meeting afterwards. As that enthusiasm builds, with another Wisdom Council or two, it becomes easier to get people to participate in civic dialog.

It turns out that process is the key factor. It's not whether  people meet, it's how they meet, how they dialog. It took me years to learn this.

cheers,

richard