2008-12-12 07:44:00
Thanks for your ongoing comments Larry W. I'll make a few comments.
I'm with you on encouraging Keysters and like-thinkers to run for office. If they run on the Molecular Politics platform of representing the people, no matter what their personal opinions are, they will have a great advantage right there. BUT that by itself is not likely to get people of good will elected. Unless our guy is a very savvy and dynamic personality, large sums of money will be needed to get anyone elected.
The first step will be popularize the Molecular Politics ideas. The second step will be to gather seed money from people interested in the idea. The third step will be to create a national organization dedicated to this purpose.
The fourth step is to then approach potential candidates who have enough gravitas to get elected. The appeal for them is that Molecular Politics will appeal to the people and will provide a means to get in office. The downside for them that they must accept is that they will not have the personal power and glamour of the other politicians because they follow the will of the people and not their own will. Even so many fair minded politicians would be interested in this plan. For one thing the first ones will be part of a movement that could change the political world all over the planet.
Fifth, after a candidate gets elected we set up co-legislators and a secure Internet site where they can make known the will of the people in the appropriate district or state to the representative.
Larry W. talked about setting up an Internet polling service first. This may be duplicating what is already out there and would only have a small effect. There are already numerous internet polls. Most of them are obviously partisan, but a few of them try to stay away from indoctrination. I would say the best is Vote.Com ran by Dick Morris. Even though the site does not preach either conservative or liberal politics most do know that Morris is a Republican and thus the majority of the voters will be Republicans and skew the vote. He sends the results to politicians, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on them.
The only way to make Molecular Politics work is to first commit the politician BEFORE he gets elected to honor the will of his co-legislators. Any politician that is already elected cannot be expected to give a rats behind about the idea, but these will generally belittle it and fight against it. Current politicians listen to their peers and interest groups much more than any poll.
The most important next step in my sphere is to finish my book and then promote it. If it becomes a best seller we can then have power to start something significant. If it does not then we move to "Plan B." There must always be a Plan B to insure ultimate success.
Stephen writes:
"I agree in principle with the above quote, but would just like to ask, should elected officials represent public opinion' on issues, or should they stick to their own views and values, and vote depending on their consciences? This of course does not mean voting according to the Party Line', which is what many of them do at the moment, it is about offering themselves up for public scrutiny in the first place so that those voting can decide if they generally agree with them or not. If done honestly (sorry, I am an optimist, lol), each Politician would represent Public Opinion most of the time anyway, for they would not have been voted in otherwise. However, there will be times when a Politician will simply disagree with Public Opinion (whether that opinion is manipulated or not), so what should he do, vote against his conscience or do what he thinks is right? I think the latter."
JJ:
Under the current system you are correct. The most desirable candidate for is one who truly wants to serve his country and votes for what he thinks is best no matter what the consequences.
This would also be the ideal candidate in a truly enlightened system and works this way in the spiritual Molecular Relationship, except he can be immediately voted out of power if his people feel short changed.
But we are in a transition period where, instead of enlightened representatives, we have mostly corrupted ones because of the outside pressures having little relation to the will of the people.
Under the current system when the representative goes against the will of the people it is usually an unenlightened rather than an enlightened decision. When one averages out what the people as a whole think (when properly informed) vs. how the politicians vote then we see the will of the people is the more enlightened of the two.
To make Molecular Politics work the candidate must agree to follow the will of his co-legislators with his voting, even if it goes strongly against his beliefs. If he has a strong belief that he will follow even if it goes against the will of his co-legislators then he could not be a molecular candidate. He has to absolutely commit to the will of the people and if he violates this once then the Molecular organization will not support him for reelection.
The Molecular organization will have great power over the politicians because when the people see how it works they will vote for the organization rather than the person running.
Under this plan the Representative will be both a manager and educator. If he thinks he sees more correctly than his constituents he will seek to educate them so they will change their minds toward a more reasonable direction. If the representative is a good teacher he will have a powerful sway over his constituents, but if he cannot convince them he must vote with the majority of those he serves.
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