This is a dark time, but it may be the darkness before the dawn

#Democratisation = many birds, 1 stone

#DirectDemocracy

#ParticipatoryDemocracy

#DeliberativeDemocracy

#ThirdDraftDemocracy

𝙋𝙞𝙘: 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙣 1992, 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙡𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙧

4. The tools for democratic change—for taking power from our remote, unaccountable elites & putting it in the hands of the demos—are in use in nearly every country, & have been highly successful.

Used more widely, we could be out of this mess.

2. The world is manifestly messed up

3. Everyone *perceives* that the world is messed up

(In a quick global survey, the only ones who spoke as if everything’s great are Kier Starmer, Donald Trump, Ursula von der Leyen + some guy in Africa who's coming out of a malarial fever...)

(I did a quick global survey: the only ones who talk as if everything’s great are Kier Starmer, Donald Trump, Ursula von der Leyen + some guy in Africa who's coming out of a malarial fever...)

2. The world is manifestly messed up, & led by donkeys

3. Everyone *perceives* that the world is messed up & led by donkeys

I now suspect that #DeliberativeDemocracy is about to really take off, & may (wild guess) start to take over some governance work from the failing representative system.

Yes, that day seems to be getting closer.

I've just spent 3 months on LinkedIn - a bit staid, but I have discovered thousands of democratic reformers there from round the world.

When I was in my 20s (40y before I knew I was autistic) I used to tell everyone I suffered from a rare condition called "Wrong Planet Syndrome".

Now others have arrived at the same phrase.

I guess it's a no-brainer.

I suspect the biggest change will come in how we are governed.

#ThirdDraftDemocracy

(My guess = a hybrid of #DeliberativeDemocracy, #DirectDemocracy & representative democracy. And that the burden of governance will shift over time toward the first two.)

Right now, speculation about the next 20 years is focused entirely on the revolutions in economics, geopolitics & technology.

And media & social media cartels (information capture).

With the alternatives now on offer, it's only a matter of time before the first nation makes the leap from the failed, capturable representative system to something much better.

Our politics is bogged down in issues no-one can solve at the level on which they’re being addressed.

Yet electing & re-electing leaders who presided over decades of decline has not convinced Westerners that their political system needs replacing.

#ThirdDraftDemocracy

Change won't come from anything mainstream (politics, media, think tanks). It'll be ground-up.

The solution is to replace our sham democracies with real ones.

#ThirdDraftDemocracy #DemocraticReform

books2read.com/thirddraft

- Corporate donors > poor regulation of drugs & food > American health crisis

- Corporate donors > political capture > NATO expansion > Ukraine war

- Israel Lobby corporate donors > political capture > Gaza genocide

- Corporate donors were a major factor in the Vietnam war

- Corporate donors were indistinguishable from those who launched the Iraq war

- Corporate donors caused the regulatory capture that underlay the Global Financial Crisis

*From The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power. (Constitutional structures to end the control by wealth of politics, the economy, science, medicine & war.)

#ThirdDraftDemocracy #Democracy

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