Think you could choose between wealth and power?
 

Steve Glickman says you should have to!!

What’s the difference between wealth and power anyway? To Steve Glickman, founder of the Democratic Empowerment Party and VoteSizing.org, they are distinct and opposing value systems - and only by embracing their differences can we ensure our survival; or if not, self-destruction. Without a clear understanding of their functions, we grow confused, blend them together and breed corruption. This corruption instills itself both institutionally and personally; so it’s not just the social fabric that gets destroyed but our spiritual beings too.

How then do we offer people a fair choice between wealth and power, rid ourselves of this corruption and restore balance to our lives? For the past 20+ years Glickman has been preaching that the best place and time is during elections in ballot booths. His crusade, called vote sizing, proposes using computers to adjust the size of each of our votes inversely to our income; thereby leaving wealthy people with the wealth they desire, and giving poorer people the increased control over government which they need. Drastic? Sure is ...but who can deny that the alternative - of continuing to erode the average person’s political say in their future - looks a lot bleaker?

Vote sizing is only a small tweak to the current electoral system, yet opens the door to a new universe of ideas: What new mechanisms would we need to get it done? Besides political elections, where else can vote sizing be used? What goals can we aim for through sizing votes? What could vote sizing do to human nature? And what does it say about those of us unwilling to sacrifice anything for the greater good?

Suggested Topics for Discussion:

• How wealth corrupts power, and power wealth.
• In its current form, democracy is incapable of resisting corruption.
• The smaller shifts in thinking are the most powerful.

Suggested Questions:

1. Isn’t Vote Sizing undemocratic?
2. Why do we want to punish the wealthy people?
3. Aren’t poorer and middle-class people too stupid and lazy to use a weighted vote properly?
4. Isn’t it some kind of dangerous utopian dream like Communism and Marxism?
5. How did you come up with the idea of Vote Sizing?
6. What is the greatest problem facing the world today?
7. Does it promote one-world-government?
8. How much success have you had?
9. Where do you see this movement taking hold?
10. How can people get involved?

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