Re: [WDDM] Simpol and True Democracy

[Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>]

I guess, if we the WDDM staff had to facilitate people to originate
their own policies locally from bottom-up, it is a good that the staff
has no power to do anything from top-down.


Bests

antonio





Bruce Eggum ha scritto:
> Dear PVR and all,
>
> PVR you have many good points. I especially like the www.myverdict.net
> <http://www.myverdict.net/> site. This fills the function that people
> can bring their concerns, initiatives, proposals to the world for
> consideration. I can also post to the USA, Wisconsin and Shawano
> County. This is a tremendous achievement.
>
> Using this as a "beginning" we could recruit people who would
> hopefully join and contribute their ideas and thoughts locally.
>
> But! There is no power to do anything.
(remaining Bruce's deleted)



> On 1 Aug 2007 13:57:30 -0000, *Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan*
> <vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Dear Antonio and all,
>     I have indicated in the course of several of my posts how a
>     conscience-based political system can be ushered in. In fact WDDM
>     has helped in improvising the original plan I have mentioned in my
>     blog: http://musingsonpartylessdemocracy.blogspot.com . But let me
>     update and summarize here what I have in mind:
>
>     1) The model of Roy Baine's www.myverdict.net
>     <http://www.myverdict.net> is a good starting point. He has
>     painstakingly collected names of about 140 countries, the primary
>     divisions (states) of each of these countries and the secondary
>     divisions of each of these primary divisions. Any person on earth
>     belonging to one of these localities can thus express himself
>     regarding matters concerning his/her area. I would suggest that we
>     prepare a similar list but the names should be that of the
>     constituencies at the state, district and sub-district levels so
>     that the views expressed by voters of a particular constituency
>     can consolidate and pave the way for action at the local level,
>     either directly or through pressure exerted on the elected
>     representative of that constituency (in terms of the prospects of
>     him getting reelected or recalled if such a law is eventually
>     passed). An example of exerting pressure of similar nature being
>     already tried is given in the following link:
> http://www.alliance21.org/2003/article.php3?id_article=2455
>
>     Thus WDDM can be a platform for people to make their voice heard.
>     The members who register themselves at WDDM can express on what
>     they they would like to see happening with respect to their
>     locality/state/nation on issues that concern them. Similarly they
>     can express dissatisfaction on issues that affect them. Thus the
>     individual's conscience is made the centre of all activity and not
>     the views of a small minority belonging to the political or other
>     elite classes.
>
>     2) In order to add weightage to the views of the people it should
>     be made clear that if the members of a particular area feel that
>     the elected representatives are failing in their task, then the
>     voters would join together in the next ensuing election to
>     campaign for the candidate (either an independent or belonging to
>     a political party that believes in conscience-based governance)
>     whom they believe would seriously take note of the people's views
>     expressed on the WDDM (and other such platforms).
>
>     3) Eventually the above steps can lead to a situation where
>     'conscience-based governance' through 'partyless mechanism within
>     the elected house' can be made into a law if the people so desire.
>     The political parties would still exist but would be confined to
>     promoting their particular ideology outside the elected house,
>     having no role in actual governance.
>
>     The above step wise approach would allow freedom of thought to the
>     people and would allow increasing degree of activism towards truer
>     democracy depending on the need of the locality and the way the
>     political parties respond to the challenge. Political parties and
>     independent politicians would find that getting themselves
>     registered at the WDDM and adopting the principle of
>     'conscience-based governance' would be advantageous to them. NGOs
>     fighting for various social causes would find that supporting the
>     WDDM by registering themselves in it would be of great help in
>     promoting their respective causes.
>
>     The global approach of WDDM would be an advantage since the
>     possible down-side of adopting 'conscience-based governance' to
>     individual national economies in terms of losing competitiveness
>     would be balanced by similar changes occurring everywhere. The
>     global approach naturally would add to the appeal and credibility
>     of 'conscience-based governance' to the common man.
>
>     There is vast scope of further refinement of the above proposal.
>     I&R Tools like Enitiative can be integrated to facilitate
>     deliberation
>     and decision making by the people.
>
>     I will post this under the proposal forum for what it is worth.
>
>     PVR
>
>
>
> --
> Bruce Eggum
> Gresham Wisconsin, USA
> http://www.doinggovernment.com/
> Check out my Blog too
> http://bruceeggum.blogster.com/
>
>
>    vote