The Middle TDG
The second of four TDG stages.
Local TDGs are still merging. Constitutions are being re-written. The early builders have more skills for TDG governance than when they started.
https://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=490
Texas Senate Democrat Talarico Declares War on Billionaire Power in Fiery Acceptance Speech
Texas Senate nominee James Talarico delivers a fiery acceptance speech, calling out billionaire power and launching a grassroots movement to unite working Texans and reclaim democracy.
#BillionaireInfluence #campaignSpeech #democraticReform #EconomicInequality #grassrootsCampaign #JamesTalarico #progressiveMovement #ProgressivePolitics #TexasDemocrats #TexasElections #texasPolitics #TexasSenateRace #workingClassPolitics https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oLf
And all of this could be improved by us entering the modern world with the introduction of a democratic form of local government instead of the undemocratic/unaccountable Council CEO system we have now:
#LocalDemocracy #Ireland #LocalGovernmentReform #Democracy #Irish #Community #Waterford #Democratic #LocalGovernment #IrishPolitics #IrishPol #DemocraticReform #Democratisation #Decentralisation #UrbanDesign #ActiveTravel #Urbanism #Planning #UrbanPlanning #WaterfordCity #Déise #Cycling #Bikes
Building a Local TDG
Six steps to start a new democracy:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=158
South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik called for the prompt initiation of constitutional amendment discussions, advocating a phased and consensus-driven approach, citing favorable political conditions and growing public demand for democratic reforms.
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
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.
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Kerry Mitchell 🍁
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