You can govern yourself. You can govern with others. You can learn about political planks and political platforms, how to do governance, and about political organization. It's about active citizenship, civics, a more perfect union, and we the people. It's about participation. So, the focus of these many posts is on democracy, justice, citizenship, governance, co-operation, and democracy.
Do it right now
Get together a small group
These few words are directed to citizens of the USA and anyone else who is curious.
The purpose of the groups I speak of is teaching one another about the nature a value of what could be called participatory governance, trust and cooperation in a group, the actual working of government in the US, theoretic nature of republics and democracy, and that which the group decides to learn the workings of. I hope it will be about participation. It could about participatory democracy.
It could be about freedom. What freedom? It could be the freedom to cooperate in taking care of one another in a fair and meaningful way.
Some important rules for a strong group include:
No enemies.
Each member has frequent and equal opportunity to speak to the whole attentive group.
A good start can be sitting down and listening to one another; hear each other. An important purpose is to begin to trust each other a bit more. Appropriate trust is a great power.
Begin. Start right now.
Thank you for reading.
Richard
Who Will "Us" Be?
What are our protections? How do we keep from being lost in the great world? Family helps. Neighborhood helps. Statehood helps. Our nation helps. But we need a more. Dialogue may help get the needed more.
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