105. Huh?!

“Huh?!” is an appropriate response by anyone who tried to grok the depth and parameters of Post #104.  What was proposed seems like such an irrational existential possibility as there will never be a constitutional convention held in the United States to make any formal revisions.  It is simply impossible to accomplish with state and congressional legislative processes willingly neutered and incompetent by their elected and appointed public executives who seek money, vast amounts of money, to become elected or re-elected; and, to assure that more money follows by “Yessing” their moneyed contributors.  Developing more legislation to curtail campaign spending is just so much “patchwork” for something that needs a creative solution.  

Again, that creative solution will not be forthcoming from the hierarchies of social, political or economic/financial power.  It can only come from those who hold the ultimate authority for democratic governance:  The People.  

Now, here is where the democratic process gets interesting, particularly when citizens individually and eventually as a public begin to find the union of all their divergent interpretations in the three core values of social sustainability that are common to every individual of our species, globally and in every race, ethnicity, gender, nation and culture.  That commonality is so embedded and invested in our existence as to be overlooked by almost everyone.  It is from these three values that citizens can develop their own individual interpretation:    Now reverse that process.

Diverse social, political and economic/financial groups within a democratic nation can find union in their commonalities:  the three core values of social sustainability.  Each group must come to accept that every individual and group has a right of self-determination to develop their own interpretations of those values, so long as those interpretations do not violate the three moral imperatives of social sustainability, (Post #11).  For a democracy to work well does not require like-thinking, but like-valuing.  How people live, what they believe and what they wear is really no business of anyone else, as long as they observe the three moral imperatives.  

“Huh?!”  These three values encourage the formation of unified social, political and economic/financial positions on social policies and laws.  What is required to empower this process is the willingness of groups to co-exist with other groups with whom they may have great differences in how they interpret the three values.