Politics Without Politicians All over the world today most people mistrust most politicians. Political scandals, conspiracies and corruption occur daily in every country and in every political party, hence most politicians are mistrusted even by their supporters. Many believe that politics necessarily breeds corruption (there’s a well-known saying, “All power corrupts”). No wonder many people mistrust not only politicians but politics itself. Many refuse to vote. They no longer believe elections can make a significant change. Non-voting for representatives is a vote of “no confidence” on rule by representatives. Often people disgusted by most Politicians’ duplicity seek trustworthy politicians. If they find some, those too eventually disappoint them. No wonder some believe a dictator should replace parliament. Others, rejecting dictators but seeing no alternative, give up and leave politics to politicians. This makes matters worse as politicians concerned more with their power than with the interests of society are left to run society. How to run society by all citizens – not representatives - voting directly on POLICIES rather than on politicians. When all citizens decide all policies politicians are redundant as their job is to decide for others. Politicians represent others. Authority to decide for others is “Power”, and it is this Power - not politics – that breeds corruption. Abolishing authority to represent others will abolish corruption. When no one has the right to decide for others, politics will be purged of hipocricy, duplicity, and conspiracies. When all citizens decide all policies themselves we have a new political system called Direct Democracy (DD). In such a system no one decides for others, no one is paid for deciding policy, so costs of running society are greatly reduced, yet citizens’ concern for their society rises. No political system can cure all political problems. Belief in such a cure is a dangerous delusion. There is no such cure. Abolishing power will solve many political problems but not all of them. When every citizen can propose, debate and vote on every policy no one has authority to decide for others so politicians’ power is abolished. Political power works like a drug. Those who get it - in any State, Church, municipality, school, or family - become addicted to it. They should be treated like addicts who do anything to get their drug. Many politicians crave power for its own sake, but even the few who use it to improve society will do anything to hold on to it. DD abolishes political power by forbidding anyone to decide for others. In DIRECT Democracy no one decides for others. Every citizen can decides directly every policy. Every citizen has only one vote on every policy and represents him/herself only. If a policy produces undesirable results, those who voted for it are responsible. To prevent recurrence of bad results voters must discover what made them vote for a bad decision and reconsider their motives. This enables people to search for causes of political problems within themselves - not outside them - to find and overcome them. Direct Democracy can be summed up thus: Every citizen has, every moment, authority to propose, debate, and vote for, every policy. This abolishes the political power of representatives, their authority to decide policy for others. In DIRECT democracy no one decides any policy for others Every citizen has the right to propose, debate, and vote on every policy. Whether citizens use this right - or not - is up to them.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:59:27 +0000
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