From: | "Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan" <vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com> |
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Date: | 16 Nov 2009 16:40:57 -0000 |
Subject: | RE: [WDDM] Agree or Disagree |
--- Begin Message ---Jim,
From: "Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan"<vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com> Subject: RE: [WDDM] Agree or Disagree
You are right in your observations addressed to Hamid. However consider the last comment you have made:
"With DD the power is always in the voters hands". This is theoretically correct. However how can such a situation happen in the first place? How can the people enforce DD overcoming the present set of party-based politicians?
The political parties will allow this to happen only if the situation demands it. Presently the political parties happen to be the only organized groups that can contest elections and post their candidates. It is this dependency of the people on political parties that puts the people on the back-foot and tolerate the wrong doings of political parties.
Conceptualising an alternative to political parties would be a move that would put the political parties on the defensive. Strategically it would put the people in a stronger position. All said and done politics is a game and people need to be given a fair chance to realize their goal.
Regards,
Vijayaraghavan
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:51:55 +0530 wrote
Hi Hamid,
Look for ***
Regards
Jim Powell South Africa
From:
Hamid Mohseni[esi1mohseni2(at)hotmail.com]
>Sent: 15 Nov 2009 08:14 PM
>To: World Direct Democracy
>Subject: RE: [WDDM] Agree or DisagreeHi Jim
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>If voters don't trust or are not satisfied with what politicians do, theyshould be able to take their political destiny in their own hands.*** Agreed Nobody is allowed to make decisionsin behalf of you in your private life as long asyou have not officially and lawfully accepted be represented by others, withexecption for children and mentally sick people.*** Agreed
>Why should this be allowed in political systems.*** The voters would be in charge and impose any system they see fit
>I feel that you are worry for politicians to loose their power and easy earnedadvantages by changing the political system to DD but I don't understand why.*** I have little respect for most politicians. DD willtake the power away
>Do you work as politician or are there any other reasons for that?*** Only as a community representative
>Everybody should be able to bring up political questions important for him /her for discussion and voting without asking politicians to permit it.*** Works well in Switzerland Of course for peoplewho prefer it there should be possibile to let others (you cancall them politicians) to represent them in some or all questions but this doesnot mean an obligation foreverybody.
*** As long as DD is in place this is not a problem As you told before politicians areemployees of voters, so if voters like they can fire their employees and takethe political power in their own hands.
*** With DD the power is always in the voters hands
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>Do you agree?
>Hamid
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From: autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za
>To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
>Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:15:12 +0200
>Subject: RE: RE: [WDDM] Agree or DisagreeHi Vijayaraghavan,
Wedo not have to have an alternative to political parties. This would be imposingan alternative on the voters. Politicians have a job to do so that the averageperson can get on with his/her life.
Votersjust need the power to reject, modify or create legislation. Our energies needto be in this direction
Regards
JimPowell South Africa
From:
VijayaraghavanPadmanabhan [vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com]
>Sent: 15 Nov 2009 04:57 PM
>To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
>Subject: Re: RE: [WDDM] Agree or DisagreeForpeople to be really able to do this, an independent setup (free from partyinfluence) is needed. We need to conceptualize an alternative to politicalparties.
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>Vijayaraghavan
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>On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:12:23 +0530 wroteHamid,
Thatis exactly the point of DD. If people have the power tomake decisions, makemistakes,
learnfrom their mistakes, and then correct them, they willultimately mature into
grownupcitizens. Otherwise, we live in our parent'shouse forever.
B. T.Marking
www.sdindie21.org
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