Any government can be criticized. Since all governments are structured as a relation between the top and the bottom, wherein the top always governs and the bottom is always governed, it is inevitable that the government will be criticized. Nevertheless, in todays post-modern world, one must recognize the limitations of linguistic criticizm. The Linguistic Turn has rendered language suspect. Hence, any governmental critique must allow for the loss of the representational nature of language. Language has lost its representational grasp; it lacks the authority it once had. Consequently, if we begin a critique about the top, we must begin with abstractions and we must continue the criticizm in an abstract manner. Instead, we begin at the bottom. Of course, we can also begin in an abstract manner, but we don't have too, and thats the whole point to a real democracy. The bottom is also concrete and as an originating point of departure of our critique, we can begin in a concrete manner and thereby include each and every individual constituting the body politic in a real way.

The problem with targeting the bottom in any governmental system is that it does not accurately situate the entire system. In other words, such targeting excludes the top and a government has a top and a bottom. I do not exclude the top, I include the top as constituted by the same Constitution that constituted the bottom. It is within this context that we can talk about real democracy. Criticism can be as lopsided as the government being criticized.

If one aspect of a government, lets say the bottom, is functioning incorrectly, the whole government is functioning incorrectly. Hence, we must address the underlying aspects of the government as a complete structure.     

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If you just count a few drops
Its not rain


The phrase "Democracy for the bottom" seems redundant because democracy refers to the people or the bottom of the governmental structure. The term "bottom" also refers to the individuals at the bottom of a governmental structure. Generally, it can be said that all governments take the form of a structure that has a top and a bottom. However, the term Democracy is an abstraction and may be used in a manner where the actual individual or individuals at the bottom are not included. The problem with an abstraction is that it can exclude too much. If we can construct a democracy with a direct relation to each and every individual at the bottom, in a non-abstract manner, no one would be excluded. That would be a real Democracy where each and every individual would be included. In a real democracy nobody is excluded. To achieve such a goal, we need to reconsider how we apply language to the interpretive practices of the Constitution instead of trying to craft another Constitution or to drastically modify the one we already have. There is nothing wrong with the one we already have. I will attempt to do just that.
               

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