The World Needs Courageous Leaders to Decentralize Themselves.

It also needs citizens to demand this type of leadership

It is time for a change. One that people can unify over.

The place that our current system fails us is with representation. This arrangement used to work but it has been corrupted. Today, representatives don’t know (or care) what their constituents want, let alone how to be courageous enough to stand up for them.

Once in power, politicians vote on bills they never read written by corporations and special interest groups that don’t have the people’s best interests in mind. They also make promises to the people that are never kept. For all of this there is no accountability. They tell YOU what issues you should care about (in a top-down fashion), and they almost never care about the harm the aftermath of their policies create. They only actually pretend to listen once every few years when it comes time for elections.

But there exists another way - a way to game our system back and give the voice back to the people like it was originally intended. And 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 representatives.

Sure, there might be some good-natured politicians who see this as a way to accentuate their honest efforts - and that’s great. But most politicians will hate it, especially the corrupt ones. It will be the perfect litmus test to see which one of these representatives are actually on the side of the people, and which ones are only about themselves or the special interests that have corrupted them.

In other words, if they are on our side they should have no problem decentralizing their own leadership and proving it.

Imagine:

Lindsey Brown (a fictional character for our story) is running for office. What she is about to do is going to change the paradigm of what is expected of representation moving forward. It really wouldn’t matter who Lindsey Brown is or what party she runs under. All that matters about her is this:

1) She is willing to decentralize her own leadership.

That’s it. She literally doesn’t need to know anything about politics. She won’t be doing anything on her own, as We The People will all be there guiding her as she intentionally decentralizes her role back to the people.

Imagine she takes office, turns around and tells her constituents, “You are all in control now. I am just a figurehead. A representative. I will make suggestions, but otherwise your voice is going to be my voice. Your actions, my actions. Tell me what you want to see done, and I will work with you and we will do it together.”

We have the technology today to make this entire process work in real time.

First, we build a new, transparent, decentralized, trustworthy platform that we all agree to use to create this enhanced representative relationship. This platform would be separate from the government and 100% controlled and built by the people (like we described here, here, and here). Instead of telling her constituents what she is going to do, she uses this new technology to create a “listening society,” one that includes the constituents in on the policy making.

From there we make fixing corruption our number one goal, together. As citizens we decide to set aside the hot button issues until the corruption is managed, and then agree to work on the rest later. To assure this we might have some kind of new code or agreement that all users of the new platforms agree to.

These platforms should be comprehensive and well thought out in order to verify users and prevent fraud, bots, and fake users from interfering. If the system here is corruptible people will not trust it. This is why we believe building it on-chain (with a ledger), open sourced, and transparent (and thus trustworthy) is part of the key. To maintain a good system we need to be willing to evolve, test, and try to corrupt the system ourselves to continuously make it better and harder to corrupt from the outside.

This new system should also act as a parallel test for our current government voting systems. We will be able to compare our system back to the government's and prove if that part of the system is corrupt or not.

We know that a lot of people fear technology. But that’s because they don’t understand the “final hand on the bat theory” of systems that we have written about several times. Centralized systems always attract corruption, so the final hand on the bat needs to be a decentralized one - We the People, in this case.

If we can find politicians and other leaders willing to decentralize their own positions - or, better yet - if we can find a way to unify and demand this type of leadership - this could catch on like wildfire and soon be the norm.

”I am not the leader,” is what a good leader should say, “we all are.”

Imagine if our candidate, Lindsey Brown, refuses to accept any campaign finances.

Then, she takes office.

It doesn’t matter what office it is. It could be a mayoral race. It could be a Senator. It could be the local school board. It could be any position. Her constituents from that point on plug into her decentralized position. Instead of her working for the people (or more realistically for the corporations), she would now be working in a transparent manner with the people who elected her.

How transparent? Imagine if she decided to video record every meeting she had and posted it online in real-time for feedback. Further, imagine if she posted all of the bills online before she voted on them, and we could all discuss them and see our input. (We wrote extensively about options for this process here). Picture it almost being like an interactive reality TV show. We would get to see how the government actually works behind closed doors. All the snags she hits will be snags we can experience and overcome together. We will get to see the horrible sea of red tape needed to enact policies. All contracts, all policies, and all bills will be run by the platform and constituents first.

Imagine hearing all sides of the debate - piece by piece - instead of just being told what we should be in favor of based on divided partisan lines.

If the media attacks her for her decisions, they would actually be attacking us, because we would be directly part of the decisions. When she speaks, she will always be speaking for the people directly.

In other words, a real representative democracy.

We could also be part of introducing new bills - ones specifically used to fight corruption. And we could help remove bad bills that protect those who are doing the corrupting. Once we have enough decentralized leaders across party lines working together, we can pass legislation that will make permanent changes to the current government system.

Can you imagine how much the people who are currently corrupting our system right now would not want this to happen? Imagine the systems that govern over our lives actually adhering to a new culture of “results matter most.” Imagine a society with goals, and metrics, and transparency, and trust, and feedback, and honest self evaluation, and a growth mindset.

Decentralized leadership works. We have seen it in business. We have seen it in finance. We have seen it in organizations. The time is ripe to see it in government.

The world needs leaders courageous enough to decentralize their own leadership. Where do we start?

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