Categories: Protect & Empower

Functioning Democracies Require Citizen Participation and That …

  • Government is crucial for building a public infrastructure that equally protects and empowers every citizen
  • Citizenship dues are necessary to fund this public infrastructure and that these dues are in proportion to the use of said infrastructure so as to maintain it for future generations.
  • Voting is a right and requirement of all citizens regardless of wealth, family, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc.
  • Quality public education for all citizens is necessary for maximizing the opportunities for success and for becoming a responsible and participating citizen in the political process that assures the government operates as desired by the people
  • Freedom from abuse by those with EXCESSIVE power requires limitations on those powers enforced by a properly funded government
  • Citizen freedoms, even those listed in the constitution, require limits to avoid harm by those who might abuse them
  • Equality of opportunity for all citizens and progressive citizenship dues on ALL income are absolutely necessary to prevent both EXCESSIVE inequality of wealth and income and a government that no longer represents its citizens.
  • Acceptance of citizen diversity is necessary for long-term surival
  • Growth has limitations and unlimited growth, like cancer or nuclear bombs, will lead to chaos and death
  • Cooperation maximizes the possibility of success for more citizens than I-win-you-lose competition
  • We all do better when we care about our own wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of others
11 years ago
Andy Hailey

Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, kid of a WWII WASP, Vet for Peace, universist, web admin, blogger - helping to expose America’s growing Authoritarianism. BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/the-wawg-blog.org

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