Hello,
there are many good ideas on the Forum, but how to
realize them? In Czech Republic, in theory, we have a clear strategy: The basic
principle is that it is the people, not party politicians, who alone are
entitled to write and adopt a Constitution establishing a political system. If
you let party politicians to do that - as the case has been everywhere - they
will put in place a Constitution giving all power to political parties. We - a
few independent citizens - have proposed and published a Citizens´ Constitution
by amending the existing one which we consider as only provisional. The next
step should be to enforce a referendum on this proposal. If successful, the
referendum would put in place a new Constitution and a new political system.
Such a system would probably contain many elements proposed in the WWDN Forum.
How to enforce a referendum? Seek publicity by any non violent means; organize
demonstrations, e.g. marches on the Parliament like they do in Poland; a
symbolic defenestration and the like. Try to put a DD person into Parliament,
get the support of some widely known persons etc. The feasibilyty of such a
strategy will obviously depend on the degree of "shakeability" of the
man-in-the-street. Maybe people will remain passive and apathetic. In such a
situation, we can only hope for a global catastrophy. George Sagi has written a
visionary book called "Only from the Ruins". Maybe this will be the only way.
But let´s try to attempt something less drastical first!
Jiri Polak
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Subject: [WDDM] Re :[WDDM] What is the
AIM of WDDM?
Bruce,
I wonder how you equated True Democracy with - "No
president, No prime minister etc. Just the people making decisions...". I
think you have the 'anarchist' conception of democracy in mind.
We have
discussed a lot about True Democracy on the Forum. I am giving a link that
explains how the concept of True Democracy is in tune with the existing kind
of representative democracy. It also explains how the tools of I&R can be
integrated into the process of governance: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?23,641,641#msg-641
First
we should get there into the corridors of government. This can be done from
the grass roots and this movement can do it provided it is
not preoccupied with I&R only.
Vijayaraghavan
Padmanabhan
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:00:46 -0500
wddm@world-wide-democracy.net wrote
Direct Democracy
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