<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Fred Gohlke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredgohlke@verizon.net" target="_blank">fredgohlke@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Good Morning, Alex<br>
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I apologize for the delay in posting this. It couldn't be helped.<br>
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As I understand it, you believe political action can only occur in a business environment.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, because the general population or people have expertise in their business domain, and this is were they can engage if given the opportunity.<br>If not, then we have to stay with the status quo were only the political elite will lead the discourse and they fail more and more in the ever increasing complexity of our every day life.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I question that. Economic systems are the slaves of political systems.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that has been so traditionally and still is, but it's also that the political system is constrained by the economic realities, so it's a bit one sided to put it like that.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Economic power can only exist to the extent it is enabled by the political system.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And political power can only be exercises by the constrains the economic reality puts forth. I like to empower people in their every day work.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As we've seen in the United States, when the political system guts and repeals laws intended to protect the public from economic predators (the Glass-Steagall Act) and passes laws that let corporate giants steal from the people (Intellectual Property Laws for entities with no intellect), it empowers the economic leaders and protects them from accountability.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What I am talking about is empowering "small people" to start making decisions on their own and network with partners and say good bye to their traditional employers.<br>The millions of people that go to work like zombies for 40h+ every week is what gives all that power to those big corporations you mention.</div><div>So as soon as all those millions of employees decide to be on their own in their field/domain of business (and that's what they have knowledge and/or expertise in) and collaborate with others, they stop empowering those big corporations (which are basically very well connected with politics, to a degree that it becomes indistinguishable)</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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You mention traditional companies (economic leaders) and point out "... how they spend money to corrupt, how they abuse people in third world countries to work for cheap under horrible conditions, how they pollute the environment, and the like ..." Those travesties flow directly from the political system that empowers them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, it's not the political system that empowers them - that's a bullshit story.</div><div>What empowers them are millions of employees, who go to work and execute what is told to them and they do that for 40h+ every week. If they instead would use online tools to manage/coordinate business processes that span across different self employed individuals, that would take away the power from the corporations.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You have made several references to the need for people to confer with their peers about the circumstances of their lives. That can only occur when there is a purpose for their conference and a certainty that their deliberations will be fruitful. Otherwise, it is mere babble, as most people recognize.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>EXACTLY!</div><div>And that's why i strongly believe it has to start in business. The profession people pursue for 40h+ every week is where they have insights and knowledge. It's where they have an oppinion and if they collaborate with others based on their skills and in their "domain of business", they have a common goal, which is to successfully create products and services that others pay for and satisfy needs. So it will not be "babble", but will be very focused and the more experience people gain, the more "farsightedness" they will display in those dicisions.<br>So the general public will start their "political carreer" starting with their personal skills and professions and from there it will grow to reach virtually every field of politics, by spanning larger and large supply chains and the whole culture around it... but it has to start somewhere :-)<br><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Town Council of Frome, U.K. can provide a purpose for such discourse and a guarantee that the discussions lead to political action.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>People work. That's what causes action. They can work like sheep or they can wake up and decide what kind of work they engage and under which circumstances and with which partners. This is where political choice starts and it grows from there.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It can arrange for the people of Frome to meet in small groups, initially of neighbors, to select one of their number to represent the group.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not believe people have time for that. It needs to be possible to combine business and politics. Everything that keeps them from exercising their professional skills will not work.<br>It would only serve to proof, that "it doesnt work" and discourage them from trying and instead again delegating "political power" to representatives... </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Those selected can then be grouped in similar groups, progressively, until the people have chosen the individuals best suited to represent their interests in their government.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I can represent myself, i dont need and dont want any delegates. I do business with partners and together we try to figure out how to move from there.<br>Traditional politics is incapable of bringing the chance necessary. Traditional politics has to vanish in order to bring forth real democracy,</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In addition to the obvious benefit of letting all the people of Frome participate</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is an illusion. If you will measure voting or participation and compare that to the amount of people that could participate, you will see it will never work. It can never work.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">in the political process to the full extent of each individual's desire and ability, this process has several benefits, two of which are:<br>
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* it eliminates political campaigning, the costs of which are at the core of political corruption. Politicians sell the laws that burden the people in order to get the money they need to campaign for public office.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Campaigning starts to stop work, as soon as people realize the answer is not in people out there explaining the world, but the answer lies in themselves and their community and they have to start with the immediate people surrounding them. They have to decide what they want to do and how they want to do it and with whom and then establish policies around that and once it works - they talk to other "business networks" and figure out what kind of culture those have and how to have a dialog with them about how to improve business and wealth.<br>I dont see what politicians can do here. They should rather quit politics and learn some skills that bring real value.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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* Individuals elected to public office are not part of a bloc, they cannot be forced to support laws just because their party demands it. Instead, they must persuade their legislative body of the value of acts they favor by the force of their arguments, not by the pressure of their party.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>empty words. I dont believe. If there is a small group of people or an individual that has the power to decide about the fate of a large group of people, this will atomatically motivate forces to corrupt those in order to decide in favour of some particular interest groups. They are systemically the "weak spot" in our political system. I don't feel like making myself vulnerable by delegating power to a few people who then will sell me and others - and in the long run they always will.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There *is* something the Town Council of Frome can do to build a bottom-up political process for their community. If Frome adopts such an electoral process, other communities will follow and the concept will spread.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I wish you the best with that. Maybe it'll succeed. I cannot imagine, but probably there will be improvements if you see them - maybe it will make it slightly better than the status quo.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Fred Gohlke<br>
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