Accountability is key to enabling us to design our future.
I asked a question on FounderDating about whether the law says that my corporation needs to pay me minimum wage. After a long discussion and some conclusions, I thanked everyone and pointed to the web page that says what we’re up to – political accountability. One person showed he actually read the page and replied:
“… just a quick note to congratulate you on setting your sights on a really important topic. I had been thinking of how to address the problem of accountability once upon a time before getting distracted by other things, and I’m really glad to see this being picked up.”
Something really important: Accountability
Wow- I’m so glad he noticed how important accountability is! To me, accountability is crucial. In fact, one of the things I want is for all of YOU to hold ME accountable for fixing democracy!
Similarly, what I’m finding is that politicians WANT us to hold them accountable. They don’t want to be accountable to wealthy donors any more. Most of them don’t want to do any fundraising at all!
They don’t even want to be accountable to parties. The parties are a necessary evil. They came together for one purpose, but they end up taking sides on everything. Most of our states are pretty close to 50/50 Democratic/Republican and progressive/conservative. If the parties were to line up on different sides of everything, we’d have constant stalemate!
Like we have. The parties should organize people to lobby their own representatives and senators. They shouldn’t own the officials.
Most of our politicians went into politics to serve us. And most of our people want compromise. Today neither are happening.
Accountability to the people will change that. And what I love is that it’s to ALL the people.
The Foundation: We Design our Future
What is the foundation of a government that’s accountable to ALL of us? The foundation is all of us people saying what we want. All of us being in a conversation about what we want for our future. Designing our future, together.
Isn’t that what we want, to have the future we want?
And that makes it clear what government is for. Government is not the protector of the military industrial complex. It’s not the protector of the health insurance industry or the banks. It’s not to push American values on the rest of the world, unless that’s really what we want. Is it?
Government is just us working together to build the future that we want. To build the future that we design together.
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