| From: | Bruce Eggum <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:00:46 -0500 |
| Subject: | 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.