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David S.'s avatar

I would be for a better system of representation and a total neutering of the oligarchy. In your system, I do believe there is a little room for a head of state of sorts. It could come from the same place diplomacy is generated and said person would be more of a face for the people when dealing with heads of other states. That said, I believe many of our foreign policy issues would be mostly resolved by proper diplomacy rather than what we have now... forced capitulation to irrational hegemony.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

Good start, Cindy! Real change has to happen from the bottom up, and take a horizontal rather than vertical direction. Decision-making and policy-setting have to occur, firstly, at the local level to fit local needs and to address local issues, and the challenge is how to tear down and build up at the same time. However, before any positive political change can come about even at the local level, there must be a larger, broader, far-reaching human transformation; that is, a spiritual revolution, a rise in human consciousness where the sanctity of life, not money or property or raw power, is the measure of what's good in the world. What's exhilarating and terrifying at the same time is that we know change is in the works, but we don't know, despite the ideas and dreams that we may have, what form that will take. Here are a couple of illuminating quotes for Richard Rohr's The Wisdom Pattern: "Change happens, but transformation is always a process of letting go, living in the confusing, shadowy space for a while, and eventually being spit up on a new and unexpected shore." The other: "We cannot think ourselves into a new way of living; we must live ourselves into a new way of thinking." The latter, I think, is the key.

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