Saturday, October 5, 2013

Party differences could be based on real democracy

The fact that Party differences proves that they hamper democracy can be corrected, if Party differences were both trying to achieve a real democracy. By this I mean, if both or all Parties emphasized the paramount importance of the People at the Bottom of Three Branch government, we could have distinguishable Party differences that actually supported and emphasized different approaches to the establishment of a real democracy, i.e. at the Bottom of government. However, 'political language' gets in the way of that goal. Political language has always been used to confuse, mislead, and now to 'terrorize' the other Party and compel a 'shut-down'. Unfortunately, there's very little we can do about language and the way some people choose to use it. The Linguistic Turn has not helped "political language". However, if we quantify some of the terms in the Constitution, such as "We the People....", or that democracy is a government "of People", "by People", and "for the People", we may have a chance to actually live in a real democracy. This may help 'quantify democracy'. By quantify, I mean Parties stop using 'political language' to confuse, mislead, or 'hold government hostage'. By quantifying the Bottom of government, we mean use NUMBER to refer to those policies and laws that Constitutionally apply to the people at the Bottom. Every law and every policy constitutes a category of applicability that could be evaluated by merely counting those to whom the policy or law applies. Since Law and Policy apply to a governing that's democratic, it would suffice to count those to whom they applied. As far as Parties are concerned, simply require that democratic Parties be, in fact, democratic. Some gauge on the democratic nature of the Parties should be enacted into law to keep Parties from forming non-democratic Parties. Autocracy, by its definition, would never allow a democratic 'party' to form. Neither should a democracy allow a Party that worships economic values instead of democratic values. Individuals forming into Parties should be grateful for existing in a democracy that allows them to have their own 'life styles', without trying to perpetuate the value system into the 'democratic value' form. Governing is about democracy!

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