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1. Michael Polubinski

   13 Dec

   The hunger for inclusion motivates the many movements across the globe. This hunger is in response to the distorted distribution of resources and to the failures and injustices of representative democracies. To cure the apparent symptoms we have to remove the underlying causes. Each election of representatives changes (or does not) teams of power-addicted people surrounded by invariable environment, implicated in the same set of dependencies on support, money, relationships. The representative democracy had been developed in specific socio-political environment of the past; it has outlived its usefulness. Today the education, the distribution of information, the means to communicate are different from what was prevalent in challengers of past autocratic societies of United States   and France,. Democracy does not exist without civilian oversight of public governance sectors such as military, justice, health, education, communications, etc. It is time to review where we are and propose the system which will embrace the present. The legislative, judicial and executive functions of governance should be rearranged to reflect the sustainability, prosperity and aspirations of societies. The vertical divisions of society into endlessly confrontational political parties should be replaced by open-access horizontal layers of people who want to cooperate in improving governance sectors. The collection and distribution of public resources would be subject to the open debate culminating in the periodic referendum on determination of  sources and the allocation of resources. The judiciary and executive functions would be supervised by civilian oversight groups with the powers to define the requirements, manage the resources and determine the metrics of performance. Read more and contribute at:  http://whyweneeddemocracy.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-street.html