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Imho, Liberal democracy is a term which signifies a mindset that turns a blind eye to the deficiencies of the Party/electoral system; easy route to the top for narcissists and psychopaths, easily corrupted by Big business (and other nations).
Real democracy is #ByThePeople #CitizensAssemblies
It's still Party dominated.
A ladder to power.
And a corruption highway.
No more Parties.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#CriticalThinking
#ActiveListening
#DeliberativeDebate
Imho we don't need politicians.
People can do it for themselves.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
I think that's a cul de sac.
We're meant to think this strengthens democracy.
It does no such thing.
It entrenches the system that facilitates narcissists and psychopaths achieving power.
And it does absolutely nothing to stamp out the corruption that blights our policy making.
#CitizensAssemblies
For the second installment of our monthly #Democracy Innovation Academy, we will be joined by special guest Irad Malkin, author of "Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece."
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You need to go deeper into "the people in charge" bit. Most will interpret that as meaning "elect a different Party to government".
My thinking is we need to cut off the links to power of the oligarchs, depose the whole political classes.
We the people can be the government.
#CitizensAssemblies
Event announcement for the event described, with photos of the speakers and a black-and-white drawing of a village with a car and people in a small square
Deliberative #Democracy in #Africa: #DemocracyNext Paper Launch Event, 12 March ,15:00 - 16:30 MEZ online. Learning from past #CitizensAssemblies & guidance for future action" by Rorisang Lekalake & Stephen Buchanan-Clarke. #PublicParticipation #DeliberativeDemocracy #Facilitation luma.com/zwivuf6f
#Citizensassemblies in France demonstrated their value & the worth of ordinary citizens weighing in on national political matters. That concept has been followed in other countries. Perhaps we need less entrenched politicians who remain in power too long. #termlimits #nationalreferendum
It's not a natural state of being. Unfortunately our species, in civilisation after civilisation, has ended up promoting narcissistic sociopaths who tend to organise us in that way.
Time to change.
#CitizensAssemblies
#HumanDignity
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#ServiceNotPower
If the office of President still exists.
Imho it shouldn't.
#ByThePeople
#CitizensAssemblies
Get rid of political parties in #parliament
Replace with #citizensAssemblies
Members chosen by random just like Jury service
Interested in #citizensassemblies and other expressions of #democracy? Check out our new #DemocracyInnovationAcademy monthly series! @bardcollege.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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The world needs the USA to have general knowledge of & very extensive use of #SortitionedAssemblies #CivilAssemblies #Citizensassemblies
Also why they are often manipulated & suppressed for short term political gain
#Sortition
Absolutely this. The only thing we can do within the existing imperfect system is to support @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the bold @greenparty.org.uk. However, we can do other things alongside. Support local #citizensassemblies, resist corporates by reducing oil use, buying local & independent.
Real democracy means sharing power.
Citizens’ Assemblies bring people together to tackle big, strategic decisions—and require leaders to listen and respond. That’s how trust is built.
#CitizensAssemblies #Democracy
Neither Right nor Left fight for us.
Time to take it into our own hands.
#CitizensAssemblies
#NoMoreCorruption
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#ByThePeople
👉 Adaptation is key: Deliberative processes must tailor language choices to context, not use one-size-fits-all models.
Congratulations Lisa and thanks for choosing PLC!
#Deliberativedemocracy #CitizensAssemblies #Multilingualism #Luxembourg #Inputthroughputoutputlegitimacy
You're right.
Read my timeline.
#CitizensAssemblies
There are many people who believe electoral democracy is the only democracy.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#CriticalThinking
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#ByThePeople
We live in a hypercapitalist economy. Our electoral democracy will inevitably be corrupted by capital.
Nothing short of ridding ourselves of elections and Parties will stop that corruption.
We need
#RealDemocracy
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#CriticalThinking
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#ByThePeople
We do not need heroes or leaders.
We ourselves need to step up and take responsibility for our governance.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
Lottocracy by Alexander Guerrero
Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck
The other thing we can do is seek to change the system.
We need a government that creates policy based on evidence, not on corruption from corporates.
#CitizensAssemblies
#ByThePeople
#Evidence
#CriticalThinking
#ActiveListening
#DeliberativeDebate
Not really.
The system boosts this type of person.
We need a different system.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#EvidenceBasedPolicy
#RealDemocracy
Read Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck and Lottocracy by Antonio Guerrero
It needs much more than that. How do you stop the revolving doors? Discover secret payments? Stop future promises? Determine the value of gifts in kind?
We need a complete clear out of the political classes and a whole new way of doing democracy.
#CitizensAssemblies #SelectedBySortition.
Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental & predictive studies
- The Lancet Planetary Health
#Degrowth
#Equity
#UpgradeDemocracy
#CitizensAssemblies
#DeliberativeDemocracy
fossilfueltreaty.org
#JustTransitionNow
#GreenTransitionNow
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Without a complete change of system, any hope offered will be short-lived
#CitizensAssemblies not the constant and pointless rearrangement of the political classes
#Sortition not the corruption highway of elections
#EvidenceBasedPolicy not the lobbyist wish-list
Yes Grace.
We should take control for ourselves, not via a proxy, however attractive, from within the political system.
#ByThePeople.
Government by Citizens Assemblies selected by sortition.
A Party for one term only, at the end of which elections are abolished in favour of #CitizensAssemblies
