Can our party pick your brain?

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Yes I agree, in the end it all falls together into one! It's beautiful!

I have been talking offlist with Kevin and it feels like we should do 
this thing! And ofc everybody is invited too! ;-)

More soon.

Thomas


On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:30, Rohan Jayasekera wrote:
> Michael, I suspect that the Transparency Party's plan is the same as
> that of your "un-Party", even if not in theory then at least in
> practice.  Here's my reasoning:
>
> 1. In any particular riding, as long as the party remains unelected it
> doesn't really matter who the members are and what their opinions are
> about what an elected representative should do.  The only thing that
> matters is getting the party elected, and since that will be
> determined not by the party membership but by all the voters in the
> riding, the party will necessarily have to convince the voters that it
> will serve them and not itself.
>
> 2. If the riding does indeed elect the Transparency Party's chosen
> representative (and it doesn't matter who it is as long as s/he
> doesn't renege on the promise to follow the orders of the people),
> then every eligible voter who is not already a party member, and who
> desires a voice in what that representative does, will join the
> party.  And then that riding has direct democracy.
>
> The hard part is winning the first riding, especially in countries/
> regions that make it difficult for new parties to emerge, such as the
> USA and Canada (the Canadian Green Party is still trying to elect its
> first member).  If, however, this difficult goal is achieved, it
> should get much easier afterward: once any riding has elected this
> party, many voters in other ridings will want the same power and will
> take the same path (as has been happening in a number of Arab
> countries following the Tunisian revolution).  They may not even have
> to wait to defeat their incumbent representatives, because some of
> those will switch sides in order to avoid being thrown out (like some
> members of Libya's ruling party have just done).  If all ridings
> eventually go the same way, then the party system becomes irrelevant
> and can be discarded.  I like Thomas's analogy of this party's being a
> midwife, and your name "un-Party" captures it very nicely.
>
> Rohan

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