ABOUT US

Who are we?  We are you, me, and all of us.  We're  the eighty percent of the American people who feel disinfranchised  and know that,  regardless of what party we belong to, there are no real choices to make or issues to be resolved in an election because all the important issues have been bought up before the election even begins. Democratic institutions in this country have been corrupted by big money interests, global corporations, and the major economic organizations and professionals that serve these interests.  They have done this through campaign funding, the lobbying of Congress, the control of revolving-door regulatory boards, and the ownership of most media and informational systems in this country.  In fact, if current trends continue, the actual casting of ballots may be in danger of becoming a meaningless formal ritual designed to ratify the selection of candidates who have already won the one-dollar-one-vote fund-raising contests.  We all know this, and the question that everyone is asking is: what can we do about it? 

Today in America, as it was at the founding of our nation, it is self evident to all of us that there are dangerous anti-democratic forces at work in our country. The common sense of the subject dictates that in order for us to combat these anti-democratic forces, we need more democracy to act as a check and balance against a representative form of government that does not represent the will of the people. When we use the phrase, “true democracy”, we refer to democracy in its classical sense as meaning direct citizen legislation and participation in the political system.  Some people call it “direct democracy” or “participatory democracy”, but we call it “true democracy” pure and simple, because anything else is a watered down version of the original meaning of the term. Fortunately, we have a long tradition of true democracy in this country, and the best manifestations of this tradition are to be found in the initiative, referendum, and recall process of direct citizen legislation and participation in the political system.

Therefore in this proposal, we call for the establishment of The Center for True Democracy, a grassroots movement that will implement true democracy in every city, county, and state with the ultimate goal of creating a national initiative, referendum, and recall process that will reaffirm the most basic of all the tenets of the Constitution of the United States; and that is, all authority ultimately resides with the people and all other provisions of the Constitution, all statues, all administrative decrees, all other purposes whether individual or social can find their legitimacy and meaning only as they conform to this one premise, that the citizens of this nation shall make and shall obey their own laws.  We are a self-governing people who are subject to and masters of our own destiny.

Essentially, this is a how-to-manual on how we can take back our country.  With this plan we can start anywhere and everywhere, and if we unite, we can put America back on the road to freedom.

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