Wikipedia’s article, “Democracy Index” categorizes democracies as “Full Democracies” and “Flawed Democracies” that constitute 48.5% of the global population, or approximately 3.4 billion democratic citizens.  How much political clout would .5 billion of 3.4 billion democratic citizens have working together?  Huh?

Let’s do some creative thinking, thinking that is out-of-the-box-creative.  How about a Global Party of Democratic Citizens (GPDC)?  (Not meaning the “Greater Portland Dachshund Club.  LOL )  Such a global party would have a unified intention for its existence to promote the common good and universal welfare of all democratic citizens according to the three values of social sustainability, (quality of life, growth and equality).  And, it could garner audiences for social issues and policies around the city, county, state, nation and world, and collect their input as options, preferences and so on.  Such a party could cut through and across the lines of political division that are invested in the politics of every democratic political process.  Is anyone up for running on the GPDC ticket for 2016 in the U.S., or in the next UK, German, French, Italian, Greek or Turkish general elections, for example?  

That might sound pretty exciting, much like watching a child’s helium balloon fly off into the stratosphere.  What is needed for such a global party to become a viable, innate and grounded part of every national democratic process is a national and global means for democratic citizens to discuss and CREATE stable and socially sustainable solutions and policies and then format that into legislation for GPDC candidates and office holders. 
 
The universal nature of the three core values of social sustainability allow every individual to interpret every social topic and public issue as they determine.  Using those three universal values ensures that those interpretations conform to the minimum standard in the Three Moral Imperatives of social sustainability.  Those values allow variance of interpretations that are not hostile to anyone, but beneficial to everyone.  There is only one political position involved:  the common good as defined by those values.  It then becomes necessary for citizens of democratic nations to engage in discussing and designing social and public issues within a local community process that guides citizens through a predictable methodology using those values.