<div dir="ltr">I'm sad to say, that it's hard for me to imagine what politicians could do to improve the situation of people in their everyday life.<br>I can see how "business" can and does change the every day life of people.<br>It's about whether people earn money, because <b>MONEY = VOTES</b>, it gives people the power to vote on what they want others to do for them.<div>It's about whether people spend money, because <b>MONEY = VOTES</b>, it gives people the power to vote on what they want others to do for them.<br><br>Most people have very few "votes" and need to earn more in order to get more.<br>Most people have NO SAY in how they do business and earn money - even when they choose their profession, the decide early in their life and transition is not trivial.<br><br><b>This is how REAL DEMOCRACY works!</b><br>1. MONEY = VOTES<br>2. BUYING = VOTING</div><div>3. SELLING = BEING a CANDIDATE that others can VOTE for :-)<br><br><b>AND YES...</b><br>The way our current money works is pretty flawed and so our "REAL DEMOCRACY" is pretty broken, but to make it work, the rules around democracy (which is how money works), needs to be fixed, to make it mean something in the ways i describe above.<br>The ECONOMY is our real democracy and people buy/sell every day and thus participate EVERY DAY.</div><div>We need to UPGRADE this democracy, by:<br>1. fixing money (and talk about what could be fixed)</div><div>2. augmenting it with all kinds of apps/meetings/events/activities that inform people better and guide this democracy</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The FAKE BULLSHIT (which is voting every couple of years on which party (they are the same anyways) gets king for a period of time) has to disolve.</i></b></div><div><br></div><div>This might sound radical, but please step back for a while and imagine, that money would work not as it works today with central banks and rigged rules (see europe/greece), but in the best possible version you could imagine - basically some kind of utopia/fairytale currency... (which might not be so far away from today if you have ever heard of a technology called "BLOCKCHAIN") ...so under this light, maybe what i describe as "REAL DEMOCRACY" makes sense? :-)</div><div><br> <br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:02 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, Alexander<br>
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Thank you for taking the time to comment on my posts. The differences in our views are so extreme that reconciling them is unlikely.<br>
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That's unfortunate. The political situation in Frome, U.K. is unusual. It offers a unique opportunity to empower all those people in the community who have the desire and the ability to influence Frome's future. I thought your recognition of the need for people to collaborate in constructive ways might offer a basis for thinking through specific suggestions the Town Council might consider. It does not seem so.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Fred Gohlke<br>
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