Thank you, Dave, particularly for your zeal. I appreciate it.
Coming from a European nation with a very long democratic tradition, I do not recognize the 12 limitations you have gathered for Western Democracy.
I read in your delivery a rather North-American perspective in which winner-takes-all creates mainly red and blue. Yellow is missing.
A democracy that discriminates is not a democracy. I have struggled to find a word for a system that is found in the middle of a dictatorship and a democracy, but that is where the USA sits (UK as well). It’s a two-party dictatorship. It’s dual-communism, if you get my drift. It is not a democracy. Yes, there is choice, but it is only a choice of one; often the party we do not like helps us pick the other party. That is not real choice.
I do not see real choice incorporated in TDG. I recognize it as still winner-takes-all. You are creating a top, you are still creating a winner, and having division, which is the natural reality of people, is not expressed. You are still trying to gather all together and unite every one in a single person. That is the messiah model, the king model, the president model, not democracy.
Modern Western Democracy is where everyone has their self-picked representative at the table; no losers. Okay, I don’t mind it if there is a threshold of five percent for a party before they get any seats, because who needs twenty little parties; no one. But district voting can have a threshold as high as 49.99% for the losing side. That is horrible, painful, and makes people not want to come out and vote again.
Last point: I like your zeal, Dave. Keep doing what you are doing because you make people think.
In our system, we were had. Read all about it!
