Good Luck with a Dysfunctional Democracy

Supporters: I apologize for my inability, so far, to create PeopleCount alone. Here’s a brief update.

I still need partners

A few of you have expressed support, or even gifted a few dollars. I appreciate that, but it needs to be more than a few people and a few dollars. What I have always needed is a few dedicated partners- there needs to be a team. I need real help and/or real funding. The main things funding would do is let me work on PeopleCount full time and hire a team.

With or without funding, I’ll persist, but don’t expect results. Yes, I have an intention of launching in about a year, but it’s just an intention, not a plan.

Complaint: I’m not inspirational

A few people have complained that I’m not inspiring enough. I’ve done the best I could. If you want to take responsibility for creating inspirational communication about PeopleCount, I’ll be happy to work with you. Otherwise, your complaint is merely whining. I’ve heard it, but it gives me no access to a solution.

I’m inspired

FYI, I am completely inspired by a real plan for 

  • us, The People, to be able to design our future together
  • our leaders to be fully accountable for creating that future, every month, not just in elections
  • most of the major problems in our political system to be fixed
  • us to be able to work together to fix the rest
  • citizens to be happy with government, politics and politicians

If you’re not, I suggest you remedy that. Mainly, that’ll require working with me to see that the above is both possible and likely, and working on yourself to give up the myths that you believe about politics that say the above is not likely. Or, good luck being a victim to your own point of view as well as our political system.

Our political system IS dysfunctional

The political system IS dysfunctional- not intentionally, but due to its design. In the US, tens of millions of people fight hard every year to manipulate it, yet their efforts strengthen its dysfunction. Its design delivers the results we have. What’s potentially powerful is to accept this and design actions that remedy either the system or the effect of the dysfunction. PeopleCount is designed to fix the system.

In all my research, I’ve seen NO powerful plans to remedy it or get around the effects of the dysfunction. The most powerful efforts seem to be by Trump, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, but none of them have overcome the dysfunctional nature of our political system. Neither they, nor Our Revolution, the Tea Party, Libertarians or anyone else looks to have a chance. While many have a chance at gaining power, at best they’ll gain power in a dysfunctional system.

While a new group might pass a few laws that improve or even fix a few of the problems, without fixing the underlying foundational problem that breeds the dysfunction, the fixes won’t make much of a difference.

To recap about the dysfunction:

Almost all political actions these days are based on making progress using the current political system. Due to an error in its design plus centuries of cultural adaptation, the current political system powerfully delivers this dysfunction, including corruption.

Don’t Give me Advice

Please don’t give me advice. It mostly takes time and proposes extra work- it doesn’t help. While I might not succeed alone, if we add your advice, I’m still alone. Even if we add your advice about building a team, I’m still alone. Whatever your advice is, if you really want it to help, offer to join me and lead the effort to follow it.

Meanwhile, enjoy the political system you’re cooperating with. Whether you vote or not, contribute to campaigns or not, care or not, you’re supporting the current political system. And in my failures, so am I.

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Rand Strauss is the Founder of PeopleCount.org, a nonpartisan plan to enable the public to communicate constructively with each other and government by taking stands on crucial political issues. It will enable us to hold government accountable and have it be an expression of our will. Connect with Rand and PeopleCount.org on Facebook. Or leave a comment on an article (they won't display until approved.)

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