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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 09:35 AM
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101. Multi-Party politics would be great for America.
It works well in almost all other civilized nations (they have universal health care also)
Any realistic, viable, non-violent idea on how we might start multiple parties? It would probably mean an end to the "Electoral College." I'd bet there are many people here who have no clue about the "Electoral College", that actually picks our President (unless the SCOTUS does). We have to have an, at least nationwide "Constitutional Congress" (for lack of a better term) to strategize and implement actions as well as to decide (through compromise) what path our NEW party will take (people before profit, I hope) and how to completely change the current paradigm.
Skype is one tool at our disposal. Revolutionary elected citizens (NOT OFFICIALS), ideally would conduct and compromise per their constituents requests, on this new paradigm. Whether or not SKYPE is used, we must realize that we will constantly be spied upon. There are too many ways available to the status quo to realistically believe otherwise. Even (often especially) the most peaceful organizations are. Maybe some of our young IT citizens could hamper this.
The American Revolution had a great advantage by not living in the "communication age." England was accessible only by long sea voyages, which gave our founders much needed "clueless" time to implement decisions.
We ALL must decide for ourselves whether we will remain loyal to the status quo, or seek a new direction (as outlined in the constitution), either way IMO we can only resist peacefully, (some covert shenanigans always happen), because our America has the most powerful military in the world. We are clueless about many of their technological advances.
We are also a "police state" although after a time we will gain converts.
I am NOT trying to subvert our government. I am hoping, through citizen participation, to improve and expand our political choices.
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