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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 08:29 PM
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3. This is the beginning of a long process. There are no quick
fixes for the huge damage to our system so it will take time and ideas and effort to bring about change. I can see several ways developing already which are likely to make things happen sooner than we originally thought.

First though, they have to get a consensus, which they are doing, on what is most important and then on how to go about working on those goals. I have watched their assemblies and I am so impressed at how things are going so far, way faster than I anticipated.

But the people are now taking control of a system that is so completely broken, it really has to be built from the bottom up. And that's what this movement is, why it has not specific leaders, it is a true grassroots movement from the bottom up and everything is decided by consensus. Democracy in action. And don't forget how long it took for the FFs to finally write the Constitution and how long after that it took to fix things that the Constitution could not at that time fix. A true Democracy doesn't happen overnight. No sound bites to describe it.

But they are starting at the heart of what has destroyed our democratic institutions and that was a perfect choice of where to begin.
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