Building a Local TDG

Six steps to start a new democracy:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=158

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#democraticreform

A happy birthday to the United States - the only nation since Athens to be founded by an entire roomful of geniuses

As Americans haven't done what the Founders suggested - to revise the Constitution to match changing times - it's been overtaken by a constellation of ruses, games & riggings by special interests

On its 249th birthday, the United States doesn't have fiscal, social & environmental problems—it has a democracy problem

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#PoliticalReform #DemocraticReform

Our archipelago of world crises is, in fact, an undersea mountain range

Whilst each ‘island’—environmental overshoot, war, surveillance, inequality—is different from the other, each is anchored in the Stone Age impulses of ‘This is mine’ & ‘I must prevail’.

Stone Age societies were organized to neutralize those impulses—which is how they survived.

We should do the same

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#Democracy #Politics #DemocraticReform #NonFiction #SystemChange #PoliticalBooks #PoliticalScience

Our archipelago of world crises is, in fact, an undersea mountain range.

Whilst each ‘island’—environmental overshoot, war, surveillance, inequality—is different from the other, each is anchored in the Stone Age impulses of ‘This is mine’ & ‘I must prevail’.

Stone Age societies were organized to neutralize those impulses—which is how they survived.

We should do the same.

https://books2read.com/thirddraft

#Democracy #Politics #ThirdDraftDemocracy #DemocraticReform #BookRecommendations #NonFiction

Just left the candidate debate for Calgary Centre. It was a full house and there was a large overflow crowd outside listening via loudspeakers. The Calgary Centre Conservative incumbent is out of step with his riding, but he'll likely keep winning due to our ridiculous first-past-the-post system that the Liberals promised to reform the last time they won this riding. People voted strategically based on that promise and the Liberals backtracked. They never learn.

#democraticreform

One of the big takeaways from the German election is just how much more engaged German voters are than Irish voters.

Yesterday, Germany reached a turnout of 83.5% of registered voters. In our General Election last November, we had just 59.7% of registered voters come out to vote.

#Ireland #Irish #Democracy #IrishElections #PostalVote #MoreDemocracy #DemocraticReform #ElectoralReform #RightToVote #VoteAbroad #IrishDemocracy #GermanElections #Germany #EU

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Corrupt information & government are cured not by attacking each instance, but by bullet-proofing the system.

One-off reforms are #fragile. Changing the world needs more than inspired troubleshooting. It needs architecture.

#Inequality #IncomeInequality #plutocracy #DemocraticReform #politics #auspol #DirectDemocracy #DeliberativeDemocracy