Building a 4th Branch of Government that Holds The Other Branches Accountable -100% Run by the People

We must build new hard-to-corrupt parallel systems if we want to fix the mess our world is in.

If there was a way to fix our corupt world, would you want to know about it?

It is time to stop waiting for “authorities” to fix our corrupt systems.

In America, We The People are supposed to be the government.

Let’s reclaim our seat at the table and start holding anyone who corrupts our systems accountable by creating a new decentralized fourth branch of government, 100% built and controlled by the people.

In the past, the term “fourth branch of government” has been used to refer to various organizations that have had influence on the other branches of government. Such groups include the press, the people, grand juries, and other highly aligned organizations. The time is ripe to take ownership for this concept, and work together to create something brand new. Something transparent and trustworthy. Something decentralized, aligned, organized, and powerful. Something that government itself has no say in or control over - including how it is built and how we evolve and engage with it.

As we have written about many times, our biggest problem in the world today is that our systems have been corrupted by colluding forces who do not have our best interest in mind. If the people can find a way to unify - even temporarily - and set down our arms against each other (over the hot button issues, politics, etc.), we can stand against the people doing the corrupting. It is what the powerful people who are doing the corrupting fear most.

There are no sides in this fight besides us, the good people of this world, and all of them, “The Corruptors.” The Corruptors use our labels against us. We must stop letting our labels manipulate and divide us, and instead focus on one label - humanity, and ridding it from corruption by building better systems.

If we fail to use technology to help us, we’ll end up like the American Indians fighting the settlers without the technology of gunpowder. We cannot stick our heads in the sand here. We must examine all tools available. In our examples below we envision using technology to enhance the real world. In order to have “high-trust” - which we must - we need to meet face-to-face, at least sometimes. Real communities connected with real people in them. We make many “small circles” or small communities where we live, and then use technology to link them together to make big, powerful, digital ecosystems. By making platforms that mix IRL and URL that are transparent and open sourced, we achieve two important things: First we lock AI and bots out of our systems. And second we make the perfect ingredients for a problem solving group that is very hard to corrupt called a “swarm.”

NOTE: Technology isn’t 100% necessary to make this happen, but it is very helpful considering that the people who are corrupting our systems are using technology against us (see Palantir and digital biometric ID). If we can build local high trust circles and then connect them to solve our greater problems together, we can become an almost unstoppable force - all built on new high-trust, transparent, and decentralized platforms that are constantly evolving to avoid corruption.

We have already established, any type of successful peaceful rebellion must be decentralized. The bad guys are just too good at corrupting “leaders” and individuals. There is a whole new way to solve problems in groups that humans are not taking advantage of called collective “swarm” intelligence. If you are new here, we write about collective intelligence A LOT. If we are really serious about changing the world we should be trying to harness this amazing power for humanity. If we can harness it, it could be the way our entire world changes forever, and makes it a place we can all be proud of. Swarm intelligence systems are able to decentralize groups of people into problem solving “genies” and prevent them from slipping into groupthink, all while being very hard to corrupt. If you are new to the concept, start here:

That said, imagine if we formed a new 4th branch of government, and made a new pact to fix our common problem - our fully corrupted government. We wouldn’t need everyone. Political scientist Erica Chenoweth found that no nonviolent movement failed once it had the active participation of at least 3.5% of the population. We think most people (well over 3.5%) would want to stand up for getting the corruption out of our systems.

The possibilities for a new decentralized Fourth Branch of Government are endless. Let’s just brainstorm a few of the interesting ways possible that we could organize under this banner, together. (And please leave some of your ideas in the comments below). Here are some tools we could use to hold corruption accountable, and we wouldn’t need anyone’s permission to do so:

1) A DECENTRALIZED INVESTIGATIVE NEWS NETWORK (ARM 1):
Remember the good old days when the investigative press actually helped the people hold accountable those who corrupted our systems? There used to be a time when investigative journalists would break stories on corruption, and then turn their evidence over to authorities who would follow through by prosecuting these criminals.

We need to find our way back to this.

There is a lot to unpack here. And a lot of ideas that haven’t been brought to the table yet. But let’s consider just a few of the possibilities.

Imagine a DECENTRALIZED INVESTIGATIVE NEWS NETWORK. One that acts as a scrutinizing arm on behalf of the people and is truly part of our own 4th branch of government. It is 100% run by the people, and government itself has no say in it.

Picture having several arms of this decentralized investigative news network.

The first arm could simply be an interview-style talk show where we invite politicians, powerful business leaders, and anyone who affects our systems onto the show to answer questions - in real time - that we the people come up with using collective “swarm” intelligence systems.

Imagine if the people ranked all of the politicians, powerful people, and entities we wanted to see be interviewed on this platform. We could do this in a variety of trustworthy ways but let’s just say we used upvoting to make the concept easy to understand. Then, we’d invite the top upvoted people onto our talk show to speak directly with us, We The People.

An hour before the show starts we use collective intelligence technology to submit questions that we the people want these people to answer. Once the questions “percolate” up through our platform we then ask the guest the questions. These would almost definitely be tough questions (unlike what the corporate media asks today). We could use this same process to ask follow up questions as well. We wouldn’t even need a host for this show. It could be a virtual host since those being interviewed would be responding directly to the questions of the people - as one giant collective group - via our digital platform.

Any system - or corporation - that has power over people should have to prove its trustworthiness with transparency. If guests refused to come on our show that would mean that they refused to answer directly to the people. If that was the case it should send up immediate red flags. If that person held office and refused to answer to the people then we should do everything in our power to remove them from power. They could either be recalled using ballot measures, or investigated with our SECOND ARM (ARM 2) of the Decentralized News Network.

2) DECENTRALIZED INVESTIGATIVE NEWS NETWORK (ARM 2):
Arm 2 of the Decentralized News Network could be truly the investigative arm. Any person or entity that refuses to come on our show and speak directly to the people and answer our tough questions, we could investigate. We need a trustworthy place to collect evidence against those corrupting our systems, as we currently do not have one.

We could (and absolutely should) have a safe haven for whistleblowers as part of this arm. As we learned from Julian Assange and Wikileaks, anyone on the top of this organization will be targeted - so it must be decentralized (as described in the book The Starfish and The Spider). But also, we should consider some kind of vetting process so this power isn’t abused. Maybe we elect - with our own systems and platforms - officials from various districts to be stewards to the evidence.

We also would need investigative journalists and maybe even private detectives here. As a decentralized system, anyone could technically be an investigative journalist or part of exposing corruption. All they would need is a video or audio recording device, or a way to expose evidence to us in a safe manner.

We would hope that our politicians and other powerful people would work with us and have discussions that included us about our own governance. That’s why “ARM 1” of this network should exist, so we can have virtual town halls, discussions and more. Anyone who isn’t corrupted should have no problem talking with us. In fact they should be eager to do so.

But, if any of the powerful people we invited onto our show refused, we could then try to find them in public. Some people might think of this as doxing, but we should not look at it like this at all. They are public servants. If they will not discuss governing with the people they represent, then we should have every right to try and get answers from them - wherever they try to hide. When we caught any of these people on our list in public we would simply ask them the most upvoted questions on our systems that we had wanted to ask them when they refused to be interviewed by us in the first place.

We The People deserve to have answers, especially if you are abusing your position to corrupt the systems that govern over our lives.

If we had trouble finding them even on the streets, then we would start investigative files on them, collecting evidence on our own to be later turned over to high-trust law enforcement if needed. We could even explore creating decentralized law enforcement that worked directly for the people to curb this corruption.

3) A DECENTRALIZED BACK UP PLAN IF OUR MONETARY SYSTEM COLLAPSES:
Let’s face it, the people in charge of our monetary systems and government spending have been reckless and greedy. They have racked up enormous debt on our backs and there doesn’t seem to be any feasible way out of this mess. We have all heard of their plan for us - CBDC’s (Central Bank Digital Currencies) and digital IDs.

If you have spent any time researching these you understand the terrifying amount of control this would have over humanity. In all likelihood CBDCs would be programmable, which means the Central Banks would have control over what you purchased (much like they do in China). If they didn’t want you spending money on gas, meat, bullets - or whatever they wanted - they could shut your purchasing power off.

We understand that technology often terrifies people for reasons like this, but we encourage people to take the time to understand the difference between centralized and decentralized control. If you are one of these people who only fears technology, we implore you to read THIS and understand the “Last Hand on the Bat” theory of systems. Technology can be bad, yes. But it can also be amazing. Think of it like a weapon. If the centralized powerful entities wield it they can use it for control. But if we - the 4th Branch of Government (The People) use it, we can stop corruption from happening in our systems.

Instead of waiting for the Central Banks to issue their horrifying CBDCs and digital IDs, we should have a back up plan of our own.

Imagine if we all decided to switch to an agreed upon digital (and truly decentralized) currency and start over as humanity and not let the big Wall Street Banks or conglomerate corporations or big pharmaceutical companies or governments back on to our new system unless we, as the 4th branch of government, decided to.

This may seem wildly outlandish, but we should have a say in our own systems, and since they are not letting us at the bargaining table anymore these types of options should be explored.

As a thought experiment imagine if we issued $200,000 of a decentralized currency to every citizen as a starting point, and then issued more to the citizens and businesses who could prove that they had saved more than that amount. But the big conglomerates? Well maybe they would have to stand a public digital trial of sorts to see if they were worthy of existing on our new system. We wouldn’t have to let them back on to our system, and they would become powerless if we deemed them a menace to our society and/or part of the cause that lead us to this point to begin with. They would be locked out of the new economy.

Sure, this is an extreme example, but parallel systems are a wise way to make sure that if everything collapsed we could keep on buying and selling things just like we always have. If something like this was built, those currently in power might think twice before continuing to break and corrupt our systems.

4) DECENTRALIZED SCIENCE (DeSci) AND THE FDA:
We have pretty much all now seen first hand how corruptible peer-reviewed “science,” academia, and the three-letter agencies are that govern over these practices. Building parallel trustworthy systems should be a priority here as well. We have many other options besides the current easily corruptible centralized entities we have now. For example, we could decentralize science altogether, and put it on blockchain.

Peer-review journals should not be the only standard we adhere to. If you can independently replicate an experiment, that is worth much more than anything peer-reviewed, or guarded by the government agencies.

5) DIRECT BALLOT MEASURES:
This may be one of the most underrated and underutilized ways the people currently still have control over the system. Ballot measures can include everything from ballot initiatives, recalls (for recalling corrupt politicians), referendums, and even Citizen Grand Juries.

Think about how cannabis laws finally had to circumvent our corrupt process to become a reality. We could be executing this process together in a much more streamlined and easy to navigate system.

We could have all citizens working together to draft laws in nearly every state that specifically help the causes our 4th Branch of Government deems necessary for progress.

Do we need a politician removed? Let’s use a ballot measure.

Do we need a law removed or added? Draft a ballot measure.

Do we have a boatload of evidence that we have compiled but no one is willing to prosecute them? Ballot measure with a Citizen Grand Jury.

Do we want to create a police force that answers directly to the people whose sole purpose is to prosecute corruption everywhere else? Also a ballot measure.

Lots of interesting ideas we could explore together here.

6) DECENTRALIZED DEBATES:
This could be included with our Decentralized News Network in section 1. Imagine for all upcoming elections candidates being asked questions in real time using collective swarm intelligence systems that answer directly to the people. In other words, We The People (the 4th Branch of Government) should be the ones asking the questions. Not the paid for corporate media that is clearly owned by the same lobbyists paying for the campaigns of the candidates. These should be tough questions, not soft ball questions with pre-planned answers like they obviously have been in recent times.

7) DECENTRALIZED EDUCATION:
We could build libraries, learning centers, and home education networks together online, at a fraction of the cost of the current centralized ones. This doesn’t mean eliminating schools and social settings for children at all, but rather having better options within these systems. We could also tie these new systems in with hands-on learning, apprenticeships, science camps, coding camps, and more. The need for centralized monolithic academia has never been less apparent. Education should be -and could be - available to everyone.

8) A PARALLEL VOTING SYSTEM TO MONITOR THE GOVERNMENT ONES:
Say what you want about voter fraud. Both major parties have expressed concerns in the recent past about this issue. Unless we have a transparent and auditable way to check these systems, we will never know the truth. We deserve to know the truth.

We could make a parallel system with constantly evolving and fully transparent checks and balances, to make sure that everything is acting as it should with our main voting systems. There is no reason we should leave our most valuable and vulnerable systems to be monitored by people who have already proven they are capable of mass corruption.

Also, we think voting is an outdated method. Instead, we could and should use collective intelligence systems instead.

9) UNIFIED ACCOUNTABILITY: We can build our own systems that actually hold our representatives accountable. Such as DIGITAL SHOCK COLLARS for politicians, RED TEAMS that test our systems for corruption weakness, a new decentralized way to run government, create contracts between politicians and constituents, and a decentralized digital town hall. We know that Network States currently have a negative connotation to them, but they don’t have to. This whole thing could and should be a new Network State - the 4th Branch of government - with our own code of conduct that holds all members accountable.

10) DECENTRALIZED POLITICIANS:
This is also a grander vision. But since the current status quo of politicians don’t want to sit down to listen and work with their constituents, we propose a foundational change to what we demand of our representation. Imagine if politicians and leaders decentralized their own positions. Seem unlikely? Maybe. But maybe not. Supply follows demand, and as the 4th Branch of Government we could demand all of this. Read more about this idea HERE. We could do everything from write our own bills for Congress (just like the corporations do), to deciding what laws to repeal, and how our representatives should vote on bills.

Let’s not be the frogs in the hot water anymore. Let’s get out before it boils, and organize. If any of this sounds appealing to you, explore this article or this podcast to see and understand how we can use collective intelligence systems to help us fix all of this, and more!

We can do something, and we should.

Thanks for reading!

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