THE PLAN
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We've known for more than 200 years that wealthy Americans will not voluntarily jeopardize their wealth or wealth-making opportunities by replacing the existing American System with one more equitable to ordinary Americans. Nor will those Americans who wield economic or political influence jeopardize their lifestyles by changing the System. As these are the movers and shakers of the System, it's obvious that unless ordinary Americans unite and fuse the greater political force, their lives will not change much and, based upon the history of humanity, things will only get more oppressive for them.

Despite the elitist belief that ordinary, uneducated Americans are incapable of self-government, and despite the ridicule many of them have experienced for their strong beliefs in true democracy, these Americans still believe that if given the full truth of any situation—and all the options—ordinary, uneducated citizens will make intelligent choices.

Assuming they're right and all these rich, eduated people are wrong, the ordinary American masses should join forces and support the development of a nonprofit, "private-public" organizatiion with a fivefold mission.

• One: to aid social units—small and large—requesting help in their attempts to initiate a TD form of government. This simply means that whether it is a group of neighborhood citizens wishing to determine and implement the real needs of their neighborhood by a true deliberative, democratic process, or a larger social group, such as a nation, wishing to establish a true democratic political system for itself, this organization will help guide them in in the proper use of existing deliberative processes that have proven successful in the past.
  

• Two: to train and provide the personnel who will actually teach and assist social units to conduct these deliberative processes via Neighborhood Advisory Committees, which are the fundamental social-political units in fictional "America."

• Three: to promote an awareness within all spheres of U.S. society that TD is the only "true" democracy, and that many of their social illnesses can be eliminated only within the environment of a true democracy.

• Four: to assist in developing a true, uncorrruptible TD political party.

• Five: to make the organization financially self-sufficient until the party is strong enough to win control of government for the American people.

What is the best way to create such an organization? There are, probably, many ways. But as time is crucial, here is a plan to quickly initiate such an organization. There will undoubtedly be other viewpoints, but it's doubtful if they will be any more logical than this one.

• Specifically, the upper economic class would definitely not participate in any movement that would change their wealth-making opportunities and lifestyles.
  
  

  Specifically, it's doubtful if upper middle-class Americans would join a movement that might change their economic status, and lifestyles. After all, that's why their economic class was first created after WWII. It's the mirror image of George Orwell's "Outer Party" in his book 1984, which was published in 1949.

• Specifically, the more aggressive, superpatriotic groups with their weapons and brute force preferences are the wrong ones to grant leadership of a society. Under the existing political system—that has proven to be easily influenced by aggressive people holding arrogant, oppressive ideas—they are correct in demanding their right to own and use weapons. But brute force hasn't solved human problems in the past and won't solve them now

• Generally, middle-class, middle-aged Americans are too timid and too fearful of change to aggressively take the lead in transforming the pseudo-democratic political system into a true democratic system. Also, too many are politically indifferent and too economically dependent upon corporations and social institutions to voluntarily threaten their economic lifelines, no matter how inadequate. It would take a super-strong disstisfaction with the corruption and unfairness of the current American System combined with greater courage than this class has shown in the past to transform it into a signifcant force for change.

• Logically, there are two groups that should lead any movement for true democracy: the academic and thescientific communities. It's the students, teachers, scientists, and philosophers—the active seekers of truth and knowledge—who will be a stabilizing element in any attempt to initiate true democracy, and they should assume their advisory role at the very beginning.
  

Why preference for the academic and scientific communities above all other segments of society? For four reasons.

• First: As opposed to the economic and political segments, which thrive in environments of greed, deception, and hypocrisy, the inhabitants of both the academic and scientific communities are thoroughly immersed in environments that value truth and knowledge, making them the most logical ones to transmit these values to all of us.
  

• Second: These people already possess networks of communications. Through seminars, special classes, sports competitions, and many other ways, teachers, students, and working scientists freely communicate with their counterparts around the country.
  

• Third: Many in both communities possess a long-held distrust and dislike of the political and economic elite gained from personal experiences.
  

• Fourth: Like the population-at-large, student populations are transitory: here today and gone tomorrow. But unlike the lack of cohesion within the general population, there is often a unique continuity and camaraderie within student college populations after graduation. And, of course, there will always be new generations of students.
  
  

These are the reasons the academic and scientific communities are recommended as the movement's core. They are the only segments of the American population that will, most likely, guarantee the new organization the intellectual integrity and stability necessary in the transitional period during which the republic morphs into a true democracy.

In all probability, however, adult teachers, scientists, and philosophers will not volunteer to lead the movement, for as a whole, they are prone to discussion rather than action. In addition, most are fixed in habit, dependent upon Establishment dominated institutions or corporations for economic survival, and fearful of Establishment reprisal. Sadly to say, such fears in the United States are well founded.

It means unless the young students (and non-students) of the republic—who are still idealistic and unbowed by the pressures of our low, animal-level, hostile societies—initiate this effort for a better future and give it an immediate universal cohesiveness that only they can, true democracy on North America, or on planet Earth will, probably, never see the light of day.

Young Americans must be engaged in this project, for it is their future with which we are concerned, and they should have a substantial voice in what that future will be. Therefore, they should be instilled with the skills necessary to promote and successfully conduct Neighborhood Advisory Committees when and where requested, and educated with the knowledge necessary to operate the proposed organization. Their energies should be harnessed in ways to assure them a safe, peaceful future.

Once they understand the proposed organization is the vehicle that will make it possible for them to be the very first generation to enter a future of their own creation, they should be willing to finance the project and make it economically independent of government and corporate intrusion.