Discernment III. Your Sense of Democracy
The Next Democracy
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Preamble
A democracy is a government devised to articulate and elevate to public law the collective authority of the people into an evolving form of law and order that justly serves the inevitable plurality of its citizens. Democracy is a practice, a skill, and a set of shared values that work together to form a government devoted to the public service to and for all citizens. The responsibility of every citizen in the democracy is to develop their knowledge, skill, and morality to contribute to the overall good of the society. The values of democracy exist to accommodate the individual, personal, and religious requirements of all its citizens. The commitment the democratic nation is to allow every individual to freely practice their religion and beliefs to the extent their practice does not violate the rights of fellow citizens.
The New Democracy’s Citizen Promise
Seven Values of the New Democracy
- Speaking Truth;
- Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’ and unity;
- Freedom of Expression;
- Respect and Reverence for all life and the living;
- Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care;
- Exercising the right to vote as the first element of citizen entitlement, responsibility, power and expression; and
- The care and preservation of every citizen’s and visitor’s dignity.
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Your Public Self: As a citizen of a democracy, the distribution of power, its uses and distribution are bound up with the concept of the vote. How these dynamics unfold in your society is up to you and your neighbors. Forget cynical denial. What you see is what you and your neighbors allowed over time to happen. This is your public self.
make your politics a
physical as well as mental art integrated with your sense of good and shared with your neighbors..
Politics are a third level conversation about the public self. Before speaking of politics discover the private person, their sense of good, their community values and their vocabulary before entering into a political discussion and the public realm. Build commonality before sorting matters of difference. There are no shortcuts of the construction of a common democratic authority.
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