Liquid Democracy
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What are you waiting for?!
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136 years ago, it made sense to simply choose someone from the community, and send them off to the capital to represent us.
The world is a VERY different place now, but like frogs being boiled, we persist in using a democratic process that is obsolete and dysfunctional.
People are NOT as polarized as it seems.
Imagine people having rational discussions, and discovering the breadth of their common interests.
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Imagine being involved on whatever issue(s) you want, to whatever extent you want.
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Imagine having REAL influence.
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Imagine it being simple and convenient to provide your perspectives.
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With issues that you don't want to be directly involved with, imagine a simple way for each of us to delegate our participation and our final vote to whomever we want, on an issue by issue bases. (Or delegate sets of issues to certain people, or delegate everything to one person that is trusted.)
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Imagine being able to instantly retract or reassign your delegation(s).
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Imagine leaders (with a completely different character set, and a refreshingly different approach, from what we have now) rising to the top by demonstrating their abilities and goodness.
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Imagine authority being earned, based on virtue and talents.
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Liquid Democracy provides a simple, convenient, and efficient way for people to collaborate. The process naturally minimizes polarization, so productivity and throughput will be greatly increased.
With Liquid Democracy, things are done out front and in the open, so “backroom deals” will be a thing of the past.
Efficiently harnessing the time and energy of many people, Liquid Democracy will dramatically increase the scrutiny of things, and dramatically increase innovation and progress.
With Liquid Democracy in place, mudslinging between political parties will have no value, and will disappear. Playing fast and loose with the facts, and cherry picking experts, will also no longer be effective, so politicians and political parties will gradually stop doing it.
You can learn more about Liquid Democracy by watching a video that debuted on July 12, 2021: Liquid Democracy—A Transatlantic Affair https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY. It provides some good information, but it's an hour and a half long, and more academic than engaging. Listed below are some clips.
Clips from Democracy—A Transatlantic Affair:
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=1097 Redefining power structure. Delegation and recall. Different leaders. (18:17 to 20:33)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=1435 Citizens set the agenda. (23.55 to 24:25)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=1466 Deliberation. (24:26 to 25:50)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=2096 LD thrives with complex problems. (34:55 to 35:07)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=2260 When people care about an issue, there is a way to provide input, and legislators have a way to efficiently get information from people. (37:41 to 38:43)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=2395 civic participation for the sake of civic participation is not actually the goal. The goal is to create channels so that WHEN civic participation is necessary, it's easy to do and it's VERY easy for representatives to be aware that it's happening." (39:55 to 40:10)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=2637 People having power and trusting themselves, a hope for the future. (43:57 to 45:21)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=3728 Citizens have to incentivize a new approach. (1:02:08 to 1:02:47)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=3931 Effective communication in both directions. (1:05:31 to 1:06:44)
https://youtu.be/AiZPbVcsdTY?t=5102 Summary of each of the presenters. (1:25:02 through to the end 1:33:12)