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The party’s over. Republican party dominance, that is. The mighty Goliath has fallen.
We can now enjoy a breath of fresh air. Congress is controlled by the
Democratic Party. We have an opportunity for a new direction. The ideal is happening now.
The exit polls told us that 42 percent of voters said that corruption was an extremely important issue
in this election, more important than terrorism (40 percent), the economy (39 percent) and the
war in Iraq (37 percent). WHAT has been corrupted? Our virtue has been corrupted.
Our honesty, our truthfulness, our peacefulness and our compassion have been corrupted.
These things are
virtues
.
It was the independent voters who made the difference in this election,
a trend which will continue as Americans seek an alternative to the two-party system.
If you want your vote to matter more then you too should become an independent.
Responsibility and Control
We need to understand the difference between “responsibility” and “control.” Responsibility
is a virtue we share. No single individual controlled the outcome of the 2006 election. But
some of us accepted responsibility for that outcome, either by running for office, voting or simply supporting the truth with
our words and deeds. Whatever you did to help achieve this result, I am grateful to you
for your contribution. Thank you!
We are all richly blessed when we succeed
in removing evil people from positions of power and authority.
Evil is “unnecessary destruction” and the Republicans have done a lot of it the past
six years. Humanity can breathe a little easier now that they have been removed
from dominance in our government.
Election Analysis
The Republican spin-masters tried to make this election about the War on Terror, Iraq or George Bush.
But the truth is that it was a referendum on Republicans and we
rejected them.
In a positive way, Americans voted for Democracy, for an end to
the contempt for the rule of law shown by George Bush and his “rubber-stamp Congress.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has interpreted this result as a call for “bi-partisanship” but I think
it would be better stated as a call for “cooperation towards consensus.”
Americans embraced democracy, respect for the rule of law and the system of checks and balances
written into the Constitution. They voted to support a more virtuous Congress, one oriented towards
service to the needs of the people.
The statement which best summarizes this sentiment is:
“Our will SHALL be done.”
My Senate Campaign
It’s all about the truth. We have a right to know the truth.
In light of this understanding, I wish to share some of the details of my Campaign for the U.S. Senate in Vermont
As King Solomon said in the Bible …”all is vanity.” Still, wisdom exists and
needs to be shared in order to further human progress and the continuing evolution of a more
virtuous society.
There are more reasons to run for public office than to win an election.
As far as I know, I am the only candidate who ran against the entire Republican party
nationwide. I ran as an independent for the open U.S. Senate seat in Vermont left by retiring
Senator James Jeffords (I).
From the
beginning of my campaign
on June 18, 2005, over 16 months ago, I established the goal to “make the Republican party go away …. forever.”
My initial press release stated:
“I am running against the Republican party and for the cause of
virtue
in society.” said Moyer
today. “America has lost it’s virtue. Our government is like a juvenile delinquent who has been
caught lying, cheating and stealing. Our response has been to give him a credit card, a bottle of
vodka, and the keys to the family car. This government is drunk on power, irresponsible with money,
and dangerous behind the wheel.”
My campaign mantra was “Republicans are evil. Never vote Republican.” This mantra came to me
by pondering the question: “What WILL work?” Americans love simplicity. These two short sentences
provided a simple problem/solution diagnosis. As more and more Republican scandals unfolded during the
campaign, from Duke Cunningham to Tom Delay to Jack Abramoff and Thomas Foley, people started to
resonate with my message.
When I started my campaign many people were despairing with the “perceived reality”
that it was impossible to remove the Republicans. Karl Rove had cast a spell on America
that the Republicans were “unbeatable” and even publicly proclaimed that he was
engineering a
“permanent one-party government.”
Most of the major media had become hapless cheerleadering sycophants for George Bush and the Republican
party line, obediently reciting Karl Rove’s “talking points” without seriously challenging their inane absurdity.
( “They hate freedom.” )
Republican propaganda told us we had a “liberal media” but actually it was a “Republican media”
working to support Republican dominance in American politics.
A liberal media would be focused on ideas such as Bill Moyers’
“A World of Ideas” PBS series.
Given this political climate my goal seemed quite impractical and unreasonable, even to me.
Still, I persisted in the faith that it needed to be done to save our nation and chart
a positive course for humanity. I knew that Republicans were evil
because they refused to honor the truth by seeking, speaking and supporting it and because
they had conspired as a group to create an illegal, immoral and irresponsible war for the
purpose of capital conquest. They needed to be stopped.
Some of my friends were concerned for my welfare during this campaign, but nothing bad ever
happened to me in the physical realm. The spiritual realm was another matter entirely,
but then how can you harm a spirit? The “spiritual challenge” of taking down the Republicans
might be the subject of a future book if I can compel myself to recall the unpleasant details
of the experience. Ignorance is bliss.
When I started the campaign I had no job, no money, no car and only a few friends,
some of whom were afraid to be seen with me. But I persisted anyway, regardless of how
impractical or dangerous my endeavor appeared to others. I knew the truth. The Republicans
needed to go down.
During the campaign I produced about a dozen public access TV programs, including some
with positive proposals such as
“Fresh Peace for the Middle East,”
“Hope for Health Care”
and
“Virtue Democracy.”
The basic problem with American politics is that it is less focused on promoting
virtue
and good ideas and more focused on money, media and moral prejudices (abortion, homosexuality, religion).
Since money is our primary focus in politics it always “wins” ( gains importance ) regardless
of which candidate wins an election. Of course, this ignores the truth evident in
my campaign, that anyone can make a difference simply by seeking, speaking and
supporting the truth. Why not free the public air waves so that every candidate can communicate
their message without money? The focus on “campaign finance reform” diverts our attention
from the central issue of communicating the truth to each other.
One of my first acts was to
break the Republican spell.
Most people lack the intellectual skills to separate truth from propaganda,
to analyze and de-construct propaganda and build effective defenses against it.
The Republicans barraged us with propaganda, some of it quite sophisticated, faster than we could defend ourselves against it. This was mentally abusive to all of us.
A professor friend offered a good term for this phenomenon: scurrilous manipulation.
For example, if you believe that the “war on terror” is necessary, then you have fallen under the spell.
You cannot have a war on a tactic and in truth war IS terror. Waging war on terror creates more terror,
as we now clearly see in Iraq. Jesus said, “Judge by the fruits.” The solutions are political, social and spiritual.
Consider the following “spell breaker” question: What is the opposite of “a war on terror?”
How about “a quest for justice?” A war on terror only creates more terror whereas a
quest for justice will create more justice. Whatever you focus upon expands, first in your mind
and then in the outer world. The war is in our mind..
Every candidate must communicate their message to the people. I used
public access TV
,
FM community radio,
and the
Internet. Since I was running a national campaign in opposition to the entire Republican party and
supporting virtue in politics, I used the Internet extensively through direct email to politicians, journalists, Bloggers, activists
and political
mailing lists.
There were many days when I sent out over a thousand individually-addressed emails which
likely reached at least a few thousand people.
All of this communication work took a lot of time and energy but required very
little money. I found a perfectly good fax machine in a trash dumpster and purchased
Vonage for free unlimited long distance.
I operated out of my home in the Green Mountains of Vermont. My back yard is a mountain. Sweet!
A few days before the election I realized Harold Ford had been “Roved” by the racist
“Call me, Harold”
TV ad.
I knew that Tennessee had a racial prejudice problem and understood that Ford was finished.
Republicans are evil. Never vote Republican. ( See how well that works? ) I had faith that Virginia
would do the right thing in the end. My faith in Virginians was well-founded even though I confess it was a nail-biter conclusion
to the election. Thanks, George Allen. You showed some honor in the end.
I decided to target the “Show Me” state, Missouri’s Senate race which was
a neck-in-neck tie. I whipped my fax and email machinery into high gear
by sending content from my
Reasons to Reject Republicans
database which I created two weeks prior to the election as my own
“October surprise.” Judging by the results, I picked the right issue
and the right tactic at the right time. In any case, I got the right words: “Reject Republicans.”
I felt especially good when Missouri Democratic candidate Claire McCaskill won with a
two-point margin. Perhaps when Missourians were shown the precise
Reasons to Reject
Republicans that it helped settle their minds. In any case, I am pleased with the result.
Thank you, Missouri!
Advice and counsel
My advice to the Democrats is to serve the people. Listen to them! The Republicans stole
our democracy. The Democrats need to return it. Democracy is in their name.
Now they need to do it.
My advice to all Americans is to become independents, like
Senator James Jeffords (I)
did in 2001 and millions of Americans did in this election. My advice to Republicans is
to “go and sin no more.” If they want to survive at all they need to revive their
traditional core principles of individual rights, limited government, non-intervention in world affairs
and fiscal conservatism. They were the party which supported a “balanced budget amendment” and “term limits”
in Newt Gingrich’s
Contract with America.
Republicans must stop dividing Americans by our social and religious prejudices for
the purpose of unfair political advantage. That’s evil. They need to honor the truth
by seeking, speaking and supporting it. They need to remember how they had sufficient
virtue to move for the impeachment of President Nixon.
Money and War
There are many reasons for the war in Iraq and the “war on terror.” The simplest reason
is the “love of money.” The advocates of the war secretly referred to Iraq as “the prize.”
The prize is a lot of money for us. That was the plan, anyway.
But like an addicted gambler who keeps believing that the payoff is coming soon, we
keep spending money in the hope that it will soon bring us “the prize.”
Anyone who wishes to achieve a deeper understanding of the conflict in Iraq and its
relation to money should watch two Google videos:
The History of Oil
and
Money Masters.
Our next national discussion shall be how the money system creates war by its nature.
Money is a terrible way to run our world. We shall see
how money creates terrorism and war by its very nature. We should love people and
use money but instead we have come to love money and use people.
Money needs competition, another system for meeting human needs. As long as three
people want to play the money game it shall exist. But the rest of us can free
ourselves from it by getting government to create an honorable alternative to taxes.
Consider the question: What would government be about if it wasn’t about money?
It would be about forming consensus on what needs to be done.
When George Bush says that the we are in Iraq for “freedom and democracy” he is
really saying that we are there to support “money and capitalism.”
Freedom translates into money and democracy translates into “capitalism.”
The oil of Iraq is being stolen through capital contracts with US/UK corporations.
It’s legal since Iraq has a “democratic” government but it’s still evil.
Law is flawed. Everyone knows that the Iraqi government is being propped up by our military.
The ideological conflict between Islam and the west is centered around the idea of “supreme authority.”
For Muslims this is Allah; for us it is money. Allay versus money. That’s the ideological
conflict put in the simplest terms possible. Stated in philosophical terms, the conflict is
“quality versus quantity.” Money is always about numbers … quantity … and Allah is always
about righteousness … quality. Do you understand how they can perceive us as “The Great Satan?”
The irony is that they are fighting for freedom … freedom from the rule of money …
even if they don’t recognize it themselves. They are fighting for the rule of righteousness.
One definition of tyranny is “no other choice” and whether you get your money from
the private sector or the government it is still the same thing : a tyranny of the soul.
Money wants all power for itself. Money is an anti-democratic force in human affairs.
It creates conflict, revolution and war by its nature. The idea that “money matters most” is the
idea which must be constantly challenged. Where are the true Christians nowadays?
Rise up and make your presence known!
This is an issue for bipartisan consensus because both parties have been serving the
interests of money. Ralph Nader’s slogan “Both parties work for the same corporate paymasters”
expresses this loyalty to the “rule of money.”
Money is an evil system of domination and control for the benefit of the few at
the expense of the many. Our steadfast refusal to discuss this issue and seek better alternatives is central to our dilemma.
Truthfully, “It’s all us. We are the problem. We are the solution.” We need to change
our mind and our behavior.
Freedom requires
virtue
.
Democracy requires virtue. Civilization requires virtue.
Thomas Jefferson said: “Without virtue, happiness cannot be.”
Democracy requires an informed electorate ( correct information flow ) and history will show
how our mass media has been corrupted by the “love of money.” We should all be searching for “better ideas”
rather than “more money.” People come first. Profits come second.
Advertising has stolen our soul and sold us into economic slavery to money.
The best messages are used to promote the worst ideas.
Leadership generally comes from the fringe rather than the center. The idea that Democrats
are going to govern in a bi-partisan “centrist” manner tells me that we are in danger of
receiving more tired excuses for failed ideas. We need new ideas and new leadership.
Many people are trying to get our attention and contribute new ideas. Are we listening?
We need a system for raising public awareness of good ideas. Both parties have failed America
in this regard.
Terrorism is often a response to perceived injustice, whether real or imaginary.
The solution is a “quest for justice” rather that “competition for dominance.”
The dominant paradigm is dominance itself. We need a new paradigm, one focused on
virtue rather than vengeance, faith rather than fear and consensus rather than control.
Our quest to dominate the oil of the Middle East is wrong. It’s presumption is that we have
the right to dominate others because we have the most money and the strongest military.
That’s evil!
The path to justice is paved with the truth.
We need those investigations. Impeachment is a
patriotic duty
rather than a nuisance to be avoided. We must respect the rule of law in the following order:
1. Investigate.
2. Impeach.
3. Imprison.
Resolve to end political domination and economic hegemony by working for consensual solutions
to solve global problems such as poverty, oppression and terrorism.
We need to realize how terrorism
has been created with
false flag operations
to make it appear as if someone else is responsible.
Millions of Americans believe that 9/11 was a false flag operation conducted by elements of the
U.S. government to provide a justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq (the prize).
The Republican Congress failed to honestly investigate 9/11, the biggest crime in American history.
If the Democrats are wise they will recognize that they can best “fight terror” by going after
the terrorists in our own government and changing U.S. foreign policy so that it stops terrorizing
the world. Investigations are necessary. Open hearings are necessary. Justice requires it.
Nancy Pelosi said after the election: “Democrats will lead the most honest, most open and
most ethical Congress in history.” Let’s hold her accountable. Honest
government requires honest investigations.
Virtue Politics
I have repeatedly said that I want an END to the Republican party because Republicans
have lost their virtue. Once they are gone, we should turn our attention to the
Democratic party and insist on a better democracy, one more representative of the people.
The two-party system is a “money conspiracy” which prevents truly virtuous leadership. I propose that we take down the two-party system by taking down one of
the two parties first, the Republican party.
The second step in my
Three Step plan for Democracy
is to get rid of the
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
which promotes corporate politics in Democratic drag. We won’t need the
DLC once we start listening to the people.
The third step is to create a new political system on the Internet which gives the people
an opportunity to participate in the governance process more directly.
Parties are corrupt organizations by their nature. Lobbyists
are corrupt by their nature. Corporations are corrupt by their nature.
Money is corrupt by its nature because it says that control is more important than consensus.
We’ve turned our power over to corrupt institutions and a corrupt economic system.
We need a new economy but our political system is married to the existing one.
Therefore, we need a new political system first.
Parties keep the truth from being known and the people from hearing alternatives
to a two-party system. Which party is the peace party? Which party believes that the official
story of 9/11 is false? Millions of Americans are in favor of a peace-oriented foreign
policy, oppose the death penalty and believe that our government was involved
in making 9/11 happen. Which party represents these people?
The Independent Revolution
We’re fed up with both parties. The majority of Americans consider themselves independents.
As I was gathering signatures on my ballot petitions I was often asked “What party are you?”
When I said “independent” that was usually all the information needed: “Give me the pen.”
Some people accused me of “demonizing” Republicans. I always disagreed. I simply
told the truth and made correct judgments. Politics is all about judgment. In politics we often
must choose “the lesser of two evils.” I said that Republicans were evil because
they “dishonored the truth.” I repeatedly said that they could “shut me up” by seeking, speaking
and supporting the truth.
When we honor the truth we speak it to the best of our ability. When we “spin”
the truth, or only tell part of the truth so as to create a false impression,
we dishonor the truth. That’s evil. It is unnecessarily destructive of true understanding.
Many people associate “evil” with “hatred” but nothing could be further from the truth.
Evil is a judgment. Hatred is an emotion. We should love those who do evil
by telling the truth and asking them to “stop doing evil.” It is the truth which
sets us free. Treat others the way you would wish to be treated if you were them.
If you are a public person, such as a politician or pundit, you must tell the truth in the
public realm. If you are a private citizen, you may tell it in private. In either
case, hearing the truth will strengthen our collective conscience. Jerry Brown said “Speak truth to power.”
Howard Dean said “You are the power.” Amen!
I ask all Republicans to “stop doing evil” and leave their party. Good people do not
stand in unity with evil. The Republican party has been taken over by an evil spirit.
Is there even one Republican politician who has acknowledged the evil of their actions?
The greatest evil
we do is to deny the evil we do.
Republicans continue to act as if they have “done no wrong.” They claim things have gone
wrong in Iraq but they don’t acknowledge how they conspired to create an aggressive war for
private profit.
I have identified 46 categories of Republican evils in my
Reasons to Reject Republicans
database and search engine. I learned that many Republicans respond well to righteous judgment
even though it may hurt them emotionally. It’s almost as if they need judgment to be whole.
Some of my earliest supporters were Republicans. I still have Republican friends
and associates. I bear no ill will towards them but I let them know what I think.
I even joke about “evil Republicans” if I think it is a tactful way to make my point.
Virtue is moral philosophy, not religion. It is the distilled wisdom of humanity.
It is “what works” in human affairs. We teach business but we don’t teach virtue.
Why is that? Because we worship money. Virtue is left to the religious realm but
many religious institutions have been corrupted by money. Where are the Christians
when we need them? Quietly living in fear of losing their tax exemption.
Many Christian evangelists essentially preach the gospel of money and power. That’s
how Republicans rose to dominance. Christians loved money and the power of government more than righteousness.
One of the results of the election is that Christians are re-evaluating
their faith to re-align themselves with truth and righteousness. It’s important to
be able to separate religious “stories” from truth and righteousness.
Seeking political power for the purpose of domination is not righteous. It’s self-righteous.
There is a lot of false Christianity nowadays and moral hypocrisy in the ranks of the Republicans.
You can tell these people by their aspiration to gain power OVER others. That’s evil.
Service is a virtue. Domination is not.
The Pundits Spin
“If Democrats look at this as a mandate, they’re crazy!” proclaimed famous political analyst Charlie Cook.
He almost went catatonic as he furiously insisted “Nobody voted for Democrats. They voted against Republicans.”
That’s false, but it shows Charlie’s true political persuasion as a Republican.
Bush only changes course when it is absolutely essential to maintain power. Hence, we have
crisis government with one crisis after another so that this weak leader can justify taking action.
It’s time to focus on President Bush and start beating those impeachment drums.
The push for impeachment is a worthy endeavor in itself because it produces a crisis.
Remember, Bush needs a crisis to justify action.
When someone says that the Republicans are corrupt, what is it precisely that has been corrupted?
It is their virtue. Honesty is a virtue. Respect is a virtue. Service is a virtue. Honor is a virtue.
Truthfulness is a virtue. The Republicans have been dishonest, disrespectful, and have failed
to honor their oath to the Constitution and to serve the American people by speaking the truth.
Pelosi’s commitment to resist impeachment is wrongheaded and should be reconsidered.
How can you have an ethical Congress with an evil administration?
The fish rots from the head down. The government must be ethical in all of its branches
and operations. I refer Speaker Pelosi to my essay entitled
“Impeachment is a patriotic duty.”
The Future
Politics should be fun. The Republicans took the fun out of it. They made it into
a high-stakes, high finance mind game. That’s not fun. That hurts! Enough already!
I have a vision for a system on the Internet which will give the people a clearer voice in government.
I call it “consensus software” or “Internet Democracy.” There is so much focus on competition
that we have neglected an entire class of software which can be used to form consensus.
I am seeking a Senator or Representative who is willing to dedicate a small portion of his/her
staff budget to the development of this open source software for their web site. Then everyone
can have it all over the world.
We need a system to discern quality ideas and elevate them in the public consciousness.
Advertising doesn’t work. The ideas are out there, but there is too little money to bring them to our
attention. We need a new political system, one which is based on quality discernment of good ideas.
Parties are corrupt organizations by their nature. Lobbyists
are corrupt by their nature. Corporations are corrupt by their nature.
We’ve turned our power over to corrupt institutions and a corrupt economic system.
We need a new economy but the political system is married to the existing one.
So we need a new political system first.
What I want
Assertiveness is a virtue. I accepted responsibility for removing Republicans from
power and took appropriate steps to “make it so.” I took responsibility and asserted the truth.
I am pleased with the result.
Honesty is a virtue. I gave Vermont’s Senate seat to Bernie Sanders without a fight
so that I could save this nation from the fascism and war the Republicans were
creating for America. Towards the end of my campaign I actually told Vermonters: “Vote for Bernie and
listen to Steve.”
Truthfulness is a virtue. If I had
seriously challenged
Bernie Sanders I might have divided Bernie’s support sufficiently to give
Vermont’s Senate seat to the Republican, preventing Democratic control of
the Senate.
I want a job constructing an open data, open source Internet democracy
system where any citizen can create and endorse proposals. Let’s create software
which facilitates the formation and discernment of consensus on every issue.
I want “consensus software” and I have a plan for it which has already begun
with the Vermont Democracy Network.
Scientific polls only ask the questions pollsters want to ask and we never know “who says what.”
They are biased towards conservative ideas by their nature, since we can only
be polled on well known ideas.
We need to empower citizens to create and endorse proposals in the open so we can network
with each other in support of good ideas. This requires a standardized system. It is the
rightful responsibility of government to create the standards and the system, without any
consideration of profit or private sector competition. In a way, it is the opposite of
the lobbying system we have now, which is an extension of the advertising idea. Lobbyists
are basically salesmen advertising ideas to our legislators. I view this endeavor as
“building the democratic infrastructure of the 21st Century.” It may become an answer
to terrorism and oppression worldwide. Even dictators can allow such a system to exist
without feeling threatened.
Independent politicians generally fail to receive partisan patronage.
I want a good job designing the software which I believe will free us from
this dysfunctional two-party system. I want a quality discernment system on
the Internet for good ideas and good leadership, a system we can give to the world as a tool
for creating better democracy, justice and an end to this abominable war on terror.
The President wants “fresh ideas” for how to solve the situation in Iraq.
I’ve already provided some in my Fresh Peace for the Middle East
proposal, but who’s listening? I’ll provide more ideas soon but we need to have a system
where the people can endorse specific solutions on the Internet so that the politicians
will actually address those ideas which the people favor. We can do better than
“scientific” polls. We can support an open public discourse using standards which empower us
find good ideas and quality leadership.
Recognize your true leaders. Honor them. It’s the right thing to do.
We need process governance rather than party governance and we need to gradually
involve the American people in the process of governance. The people are better able
to form consensus than politicians because the people are more detached from
party power structures and the corrupting influence of money in politics.
It’s good to be right. What was my effect in this election? It’s difficult to say
with certainty but I know in my heart that it was significant. If my actions had some
significant affect on the election then I deserve a good job doing something
which honors my talents. May I have such a job, please?
I ran on “teaching virtue” and “rejecting Republicans” because they have “lost their virtue.”
The most important issue according to the exit polls was “corruption.” What gets corrupted?
Virtue gets corrupted. Republicans have failed to teach us virtue, much less practice it.
Republicans have taught the love of money and the lust for power through deceit, division and
domination.
We are too powerful to be playing these silly mind games.
We must accelerate our spiritual, social and political evolution in harmony with virtue.
Technology is pushing us into the future regardless of our acceptance. The wise course
is to adapt to the increased pace of societal change.
We need meta-evolutionary technology, tools which will help us develop techniques to
evolve human society faster, with greater wisdom and more virtue.
Most politicians talk about government programs; I talk about government standards.
Standards can empower us to “do more with less.” We can help ourselves and
reduce our dependence on government with standards. Health care is an area
where standards could yield an immense benefit. Imagine if there was a standard for
evaluating drugs, treatments, remedies, doctors and the entire realm of health care.
Imagine if you could endorse a natural medicine remedy or alternative medicine practitioner
in the open without fear of being sued or punished and that you could do it using a “standard identity”
so we could find those individuals who consistently show good judgment in a given area. Share the wisdom!
This doesn’t require centralization if we have standards. The data can exist on
10,000 different computers on the Internet and be shared dynamically using programs
called agents to collect and process the data into meaningful information and advice.
This requires standards for data and “correct information flow.”
The “more with less” paradigm decreases the size, scope and control of government while
increasing the freedom and quality of life for the people. In order to accomplish it we need
to focus on three things; virtue, communication and standards.
Such a system could prevent the nation from entering into unwise military actions or at
least leave a clear record of who opposed it for future reference. We need to know
who gets it right and who gets it wrong.
Politics is all about good judgment. Who has good judgment? If we only have TV ads
to answer this question we are depending on money to tell us how to vote. We need to
accept responsibility and tell the truth to each other in an open system on the Internet.
Conclusions
It’s all about the truth. Justice requires the truth. We rejected
Republicans because they dishonored the truth, misleading Americans into believing that
reality is a perception and that truth is irrelevant..
Responsibility is a virtue we share. Control is a deceptive illusion. Democracy requires
the truth. Idealism is a virtue. Seriousness is a spiritual illness. Put all of this
together and you can get the “cosmic giggle.”
I lost my campaign for the Senate. America re-claimed its democracy. I’m responsible.
The virtue of Congress has been corrupted by the love of money.
We need a new political system. An increasing number of Americans are moving away from
the two-party system because it has failed to represent them.
The political parties are more interested in attaining and preserving their own power
than in creating a truly democratic republic.
This problem requires an “out-of-the-box” solution.
The quality of communication between constituents and their representatives must be improved.
Political networks are the future. They can empower us to focus on finding good ideas.
We need to create a better democratic infrastructure for the 21st century, one that utilizes the Internet to
increase citizen participation in the governance process.
Citizens must come to feel that they can influence policy in a more direct manner
rather than only through campaign contributions to their representatives. Citizens need to be given the opportunity to work directly on the
legislative process, forming coalitions and consensus around specific ideas and proposals.
We need a system which will help us guide our elected leaders to govern wisely, to make intelligent
choices based on quality information. This will solve the problem of partisanship in government.
The impact of the Internet on our consciousness is vastly under-rated in my
opinion. Let’s use it intelligently to unify around good ideas and quality leadership,
expanding democracy to include all of us.
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