Handover of Power - Summary E-Book

Andreas Seidl

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Handover of Power - Global Version
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 233

Beschreibung

Politics rethought Do you sometimes worry that social divisions are becoming too extreme these days? Do you also wish for harmonious political coexistence in this world? What political form can reunite our society? This book tells us: ... what a dynamic democracy might look like, in which citizens decide - according to their degree of contentment - how much power they leave to the government and for how long. ... how looking at the big picture can help find a sustainable solution for governance for all countries that answers the questions of today and unites political directions. ...which path everyone can follow in order to be able to live democratically controlled, yet self-determined lives. After 20 years of work on this book series, Andreas Seidl thus ventures a step towards founding a party. In doing so, he entertains his readers both intellectually and visionarily. If this work can give you hope, inspire you or move you to action, it has fulfilled its purpose. Available in German and English.

Leseprobe

For You

Volume 1: Summary

Volume 2: Derivation

Volume 3: Constitution

Volume 4: State Organisation

Volume 5: Digital

Volume 6: Media

Volume 7: Labour

Volume 8: Planned Economy

Volume 9: Social Market Economy

Volume 10: Barter Economy

Volume 11: Free Market Economy

Volume 12: Finance

Volume 13: Innovation

Volume 14: Education

Volume 15: Health

Volume 16: Infrastructure

Volume 17: Security

Volume 18: Justice

Volume 19: Foreign Affairs

Volume 20: Integration

Volume 21: Family

Acknowledgements

My thanks go to my family and friends who have made me who I am today. Special thanks to all those who supported me in writing this book. I would like to thank all my classmates, teachers, fellow students, lecturers, demonstrators, activists, colleagues, companies and countries with whom I have had the privilege of sharing the experiences from which all the ideas in this book have emerged. I would like to thank the staff of Books on Demand for their kind helpfulness. I thank the citizens of Seligenstadt for the harmony and solidarity in which I was able to write.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Derivation

Chapter 2: Constitution

Chapter 3: State Organisation

Chapter 4: Digital Affairs

Chapter 5: Media Affairs

Chapter 6: Labour

Chapter 7: Planned Economy

Chapter 8: Social Market Economy

Chapter 9: Barter Economy

Chapter 10: Free Market Economy

Chapter 11: Finance

Chapter 12: Innovation

Chapter 13: Education

Chapter 14: Health

Chapter 15: Infrastructure

Chapter 16: Security

Chapter 17: Justice

Chapter 18: Foreign Affairs

Chapter 19: Integration

Chapter 20: Family

Charts

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Chapter 1: Derivation

The Purpose of the book is formulated in the Derivation. This volume of the book describes current problems along with suitable examples and solutions and provides information about the author and for the reader. The purpose of the book is to bring about a democratic transfer of power, to organise volunteers into a newly founded party and to win elections with this party. The book is comprised of 21 volumes and can be used to create a party programme, election programme or government programme. The 21 volumes are divided up into the following topical areas: Summary, Derivation, Constitution and the Ministries of Labour, Foreign Affairs, Education, Digital Affairs, Family, Finance, Health, Infrastructure, Innovation, Integration, Justice, Media, Security, State Organisation, Barter Economy, Planned Economy, Social Market Economy and Free Market Economy. The audience for this book is humanity. The extensive and detailed information provided reduces the risk of proceeding haphazardly during the transfer of power and then subsequently acting without aim. This book aims to introduce a dynamically convertible direct, indirect and representative democracy, to establish world peace and to shape the future of humanity for the next 200 years in the United States of the World.

In the Notes to the reader I speak to you directly. In this summary you find out that all the chapter titles have the same name as the corresponding volumes. The words in bold have the same names as the chapters in the corresponding volume. So you know exactly where what is. If you see numbers written as numerals and not as letters, you will know that it is the people who will determine the exact number. I mainly use the masculine form, because I am man and I think it would be nice if women write in the feminine. People of all genders are the audience for my messages. Remember that I am only human, imperfect and I make mistakes. Please use the contact form on the last page to send me suggestions for improvement, join the supporters network, donate money to support the implementation or found a party yourself. I will then send you the Statutes and Party Programme in template form. The aim of the new party, called the Dynamic People’s Party, is to put the plans in this book into action in your country in the follow-up to the necessary electoral successes. If you like a lot of what you read in this book then use the opportunity it gives you to make your voice heard. Have a great time doing so.

The Derivation presents Problems, solutions and examples for every ministry. However only the problems are summarised in this chapter. The solutions are summarised in the following chapters. Four flaws in the political system are so pivotal that they are usually responsible for causing all the other problems in the first place.

Three of the four flaws can be found in the State organisation. Firstly, parties that cover all areas of policy force the voter to choose the lesser evil. Voters are forced to vote for all the proposals a party makes, even if they like different proposals for different remits from several different parties. Secondly, several politicians not elected by voters stand between ruling ministers, the laws passed and the electorate. This means that voters have no chance to use their vote to reward or punish individual members or decisions made by the government. They can only be satisfied or dissatisfied with the entire government of all ministries. Thirdly, at the end of the electoral term, politicians tend to make short-term decisions which sometimes cause long-term damage for which they are no longer responsible. Voters cannot immediately hold politicians to account for their wrongdoing. Fourthly, the only economic form that exists is the neoliberal global market economy. In the absence of a global government and global jurisdiction, international anarchy exists, where the law of the richest and strongest prevails. Citizens are not at liberty to express their ideas about freedom, security, nature and technology.

An undemocratic Internet and a lack of state coordination reveal the problems with Digitalisation. The state’s elections and administration are outdated, bureaucratic and mainly conducted in analogue paper form only. User data remains unprotected on the Internet because there is no world government to protect it. Sender and recipient cannot be identified beyond doubt. Algorithms are mainly secret and can manipulate masses.

The Media manipulate role models and reporting because they cannot be democratically controlled. At their ideologically controlled editorial desks they abuse freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Consumers do not know the political orientation of the medium or the authors.

The problems with Labour policy also lie in a lumbering bureaucracy that is burdened with so many responsibilities and regularisations that entrepreneurs and state employees lose track of them all. Employees can no longer see where open job vacancies are that would suit them. Employers cannot see how many skilled workers are located where, who is looking for a new job or when and how many will finish their training. Companies have to send their data over insecure connections using insecure programmes. Only large corporations can afford to provide adequate advice, information and security, thus squeezing medium-sized enterprises out of the market. Collective bargaining agreements that negotiate wage increases that are below the inflation rate lower real wages. People work in a hierarchical system of superiors and subordinates. In subordinates, this promotes feelings of resentment or cynicism; in superiors, it promotes bossy and wrongful behaviour. The pension system is unfair to future generations because it subsidises pension benefits through taxation and because the pay-as-you-earn system is advantageous for childless individuals. Consumer protection is ineffective because consumers know less about the products than the manufacturers. Meaning that they end up buying inferior quality, environmentally harmful products or support inhumane working conditions. If consumers sustain losses, it is difficult for them to find other victims, so that they can defend themselves against the originators in a class action lawsuit. In the finance economy, hardly any opportunities exist for investors to escape the ruinous circular economy. In the finance market, they rub up against the richest investors who have additional information and expertise at their disposal. The richest are getting richer and fewer, the poor are getting poorer and more. As a result, living standards around the world remain disparate, allowing large global companies to earn more money and compound it in the financial market. The Financial Supervisory Authority lacks sufficient information about the actual state of a business and has no chance of taking action against violations in other nation states. Agriculture damages the environment and at the same time the health and security of the food supply to future generations. It clears heavily overgrown land, leaves it partially fallow, contaminates the soil with fertiliser, kills beneficial animals and plants with pesticides, produces resistant pathogens through the widespread use of medicines and fails to conduct long-term studies on genetically modified food before it is placed on the market. Monocultures, tilling and annual plants mean that less CO2 is filtered out of the air and less water is stored in the soil.

The problem with the Economy is the flaw already mentioned at the beginning, that only one form of economy exists worldwide. In the neoliberal global market economy, individuals can get rich at the expense of others without the state restricting them in their freedom to do so. Small and medium-sized enterprises cannot keep up with the competition from large corporations that trade worldwide and often later become employees in one of these corporations themselves. Corporations tend to relocate to where taxes, social security contributions and occupational safety and health standards are lowest. States begin a race to the bottom for the lowest standards. Existing welfare states attract immigrants from developing countries. Social welfare itself ensures that people become used to being dependent on someone else. It costs workers a lot in taxes and contributions and results in a high number of unemployed people who are forced into low-wage jobs. The economy has become alienated from nature, creating toxic waste and making people unable to understand or repair the technology that surrounds them. Since the global economy links the money and goods cycles, economic fluctuations and corporate bankruptcies can affect whole industries, regions or even the entire world population.

The problem with Finances is that with their debts, states make themselves dependent on their creditors and remove from subsequent generations the scope for equal services and reforms. Countries that manage their money better are penalised because they have to compensate countries that do not manage their money so well. The tax system is so complicated that it requires tax consultants that only the rich can afford, which is why the poor pay more taxes. Many state banks provide pretty much the same services and consume more money than necessary through staff and materials. Since the financial crisis, the national central banks have been waging a currency war, devaluing their currencies and expropriating savers. The rich can protect themselves by investing money in stock markets, the poor do not have enough savings to do this. The law of the rich unleashes its enormous power on the international financial markets. The poor work in joint-stock companies, rent from them or buy their products. The resulting profits are paid out to shareholders in dividends. The rich can increasingly afford stocks and shares. They use their voting rights to lower wages and raise rents or prices in order to maximize profits. As a result, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Because the rich don’t live in the countries of the joint-stock companies they own, they weaken local purchasing power by exporting capital.

The problems with Innovation lie in the market power of corporations whose position is based on outdated technologies and who prevent new technologies by lobbying against them, increasing the costs of market entry and buying up crucial patents. Professors and their studies are biased because clients only commission them when they confirm what is wanted. Researchers are not free to choose what they want to research, but have to hope for political will and funding. In their research, they then encounter bureaucratic hurdles in their path from political regulations and powers, or hierarchical hurdles from superiors who want to proliferate from their research work. From the discovery to the promotion of their ideas, inventors can only inadequately protect them. And for some, there are no intellectual property rights at all, or the registration procedure is so complicated that procedural errors make protection impossible.

The problems in Education come from students who are disenfranchised by teachers and the curricula. If they fail to adapt, they lose years of their lives and end up with worse employment opportunities. Teachers can only impart knowledge according to the curriculum and policy guidelines and have insufficient professional experience in the sector whose subject they teach. Educational institutions do not align their learning with transitions, making relocating between regions and the recognition of degrees more difficult. Employers and students are affected most by the curricula, but do not help to determine them.

A bureaucratic health care system and the impairment of health in favour of outdated industrial growth are problematic for the Health of people and the environment. Too many health insurance companies tie up money and staff in ways that make no one healthy. Successful healers fail to receive health insurance approval and healing methods are not compared in any systematic way. Certain cures are suppressed so that more money can be made from a patient. Governments react to pandemics on their own without a plan. The pharmaceutical industry, by lobbying doctors and politicians, suppresses freely available natural cures and their research. Hospitals sometimes perform more operations than required in order to pay out more in dividends to their shareholders. Pollution endangers the health of existing and future generations because companies pass on the costs of waste to the public.

Problems with Infrastructure are due to obsolete networks that can no longer transport additional capacities or new technologies. The exploitation of raw materials leads to a lack of the same for future generations. Rubbish is rarely recycled and is often expensive to dispose of. Real estate is so expensive that only the rich can afford it and the poor are exploited even more by the rents they are forced to pay. Finite raw materials are wasted on transportation, although there are ways to prevent this. Energy is produced with finite raw materials and also generates harmful substances. This deprives future generations of energy and burdens their lives with pollutants. Foreign missions promoting exploitation, foreign rule and terrorism in other countries give rise to problems with Security. With its products, the arms industry ensures destruction, preservation of power for despots and profits for shareholders at the expense of the civilian population. For police officers, the use of lethal weapons is disproportionate in the fight against unarmed criminals. Police officers are insulted and attacked without being able to effectively defend themselves and politicians misappropriate them to fight the opposition. Secret services spy on their own population and manipulate them in the interests of the government. The number of private security services is on the rise. In some circumstances these have more people in their ranks than an army or police force. Border protection is so poor that criminals can easily evade prosecution and economic migrants can drive down the level of wages in the world economy. Disaster management is so haphazard that those blighted are forced to live in uncertainty for months.

The Justice is peopled by partisan judges who are more in thrall of their opinions towards clients and colleagues than to the will of the people. Court proceedings are often prolonged, are not cost-effective for the state and yet still unaffordable for many citizens. The penal system with its sentences rarely leads to the desired rehabilitation effect and does not compensate the victims. It gives rise to costs for taxpayers, so that offenders end up doing even more harm to society. Legal positions are often unclear because the ministries responsible cannot draw up the corresponding criminal laws.

The problem with dealing with Foreign Affairs lies in the fact that anarchy reigns internationally. There is no elected government with a functioning law enforcement, and the law of the strongest or richest applies. The globalisation of the movement of goods, money and people gives the rich the opportunity to redistribute the money that belongs to the world’s population to themselves. Different standards of security, taxes, wages and currencies make profits possible as long as different standards of living exist in the world. Development aid fails to equalise global living standards because it primarily serves the donor countries.

The problem with Integration is the unfair treatment of different nationalities, cultures and religions, which leads to envy and resentment. Dual citizenships provide more advantages and opportunities to those who own them. Parallel societies divide the people because citizens no longer understand one another. Minorities can either dominate majorities or be excluded, depending on what the government prefers. Immigration harms employees and immigrants because it prevents full employment and diminishes wages and labour rights. Employers, on the other hand, benefit from falling costs and the state collects more taxes. Asylum seekers are placed in a state of alienated inactivity without knowing whether and how long they will be allowed to stay.

Problems often arise in Families because the best interests of the child are not legally formulated and young people are neglected or have nowhere to find refuge. Love, sex and marriage are made taboo, criminalised or regulated by others. Sexual self-determination is undermined by laws. Senior citizens become increasingly lonely and impoverished. Those willing to die are forced to live.

In the chapter About the author, I describe My motivation of giving courage to hopeless people to save humanity together. My vision is of a humanity whose organism consists of people who are like living cells. Each takes on different roles and all control each individual cell together. Politics takes over the control of the organism for the benefit of all the cells. With the democratically controlled intranet, people connect with one another to form a self-determined acting humanity. My goal is a form of governance with which all the persons affected agree. The persons affected should be able to convince themselves of the charisma and profile of a candidate as well as their political programme. From the programme, they should learn how the candidate would govern once elected. My beliefs testify to the joyfulness of experiencing one’s own destiny, the courage to achieve great things in one’s life, the caution against and forbearance in the face of evil, and the connection with Earth as our home.

My educational background reveals how I pursued my idea to write this book through extensive research and my ideas diary. The knowledge I acquired at educational institutions, during national service, in internships, by pursuing my professions, and marching on demonstrations and taking part in panel discussions, I chose to know everything a government leader needs to know. Biology, French, History and Art for my A-levels, political science, social psychology, economics and human geography during my diploma’s degree and social education during my master’s apprenticeship equipped me with the necessary theory. Practical field studies led me to the air force as a basic conscript, to the Continental Union in Brussels as a lobbyist and reporter, to the stock exchange in Frankfurt as an editor, to citizens in my hometown as a census collector and as a private individual to conversations with right-wing, left-wing and Salafist demonstrators about their ideas. During all these experiences, I wrote down all the ideas that came to me when I thought about how to solve related problems. My image of human beings is basically good because I see how good-natured little children are and how they learn to adapt to a flawed system as a result of disappointment and spite. With my new approach to all political systems, I don’t want to whitewash black sheep. I want to create niches for them to survive in, where they can flock to. People grow with their own responsibility, which they should acquire after the democratic transfer of power, and which they should connect with others. My first concept from 2009 shows a summary of how far I was with the new concept at that time. I applied with it to the TV show “Ich kann Kanzler” on the German TV channel ZDF. In My procedure I describe the steps in my work leading from my ideas diary to this 21-volume book and when and how I incorporated the constitutions of Switzerland and the canton of Bern and the organisational charts depicting the German federal ministries and the state ministries of the federal state of Bavaria.

Chapter 2: Constitution

The Preamble describes that the people, in the name of humanity, the earth and the universe, adopt a constitution which regulates the assumption of responsibility for one another.

Personal rights include fundamental rights for all people as well as civil rights, political rights and social rights for nationals.

The State organisation includes state foundations, political parties and state personnel. It describes how and why a state is formed, how parties drive this formation of will and how politicians are elected.

The State powers and how they are shared and controlled are written about. Law-making for the procedures of direct, indirect and representative democracy is described separately. The exercising of law regulates the work of governments and ministries. The mediation of law describes the information and facilitation between politicians and the people. Jurisprudence establishes accountable courts and just procedures.

On Federalism, the basics are explained concerning the political levels of municipalities, nations and confederations of states, the rights and relationships that link them and how one level can set and exercise its own law.

The Responsibilities list the obligations of each of the 18 ministries. The financial regulations specify how and where the state generates which revenues and expenditures. Foreign relations describe the validity of international law and the implementation of world peace. Security is guaranteed at home by the civil defence and police, and abroad by the army. Education and research are conducted in a networked educational space. Culturally, art is promoted and state and religion are separated. In the environment and land-use planning, natural and homeland habitats are protected, as well as access to drinking water and home ownership. It describes how the state can operate undertakings, transport infrastructure and the media, how energy can be generated, transported and stored and what communication options need to be available for citizens and the organs of the press. The economy is regulated so that it can sustain the population and is safeguarded against economic fluctuations. It describes how citizens are adequately supplied with housing, work, social security and healthcare. The residence and settlement of foreigners is regulated by a quota for foreigners and by naturalisation procedures. A division is made into constitutional law, civil law and criminal law, and conditions for victims and perpetrators are laid down.

For the Amendment of the constitution and transitional provisions, it describes how and when the constitution is amended in whole or in part and which provisions apply only temporarily.

Chapter 3: State Organisation

The Ministry of State Organisation is tasked with organising the state with its political structures and processes so that all state power emanates from the people. It caters for quality management at all ministries together with the Federal Moderator’s Office.

State law describes the role of nationals, politicians, town halls, ministries, parties, committees, councils, constitution, quorums, votes, governments, the election of individuals and legislation, as well as ensuring state security, subsidiarity and federalism. The Ministry of State Organisation formulates these guidelines from the constitution into laws and ensures that all ministries and parties implement them. It supports their cooperation when several economic forms, ministries or levels are involved in a project. If no one feels responsible, it assigns responsibility to one or more ministries. The people decide by majority when a ministry is to be established or shut down and whether responsibilities can be transferred to other ministries. The Ministries of State Organisation, Media Affairs and Digital Affairs operate a communications system through which politicians can interact with each other and with citizens, and citizens can control the state.

As the supreme guardian of the constitution, the State Organisation Minister, ensures that all state institutions comply with the constitution and guarantees the fundamental rights of all citizens. The Federal Moderator’s Office is the organ government officials, politicians, party members and citizens can turn to when they encounter problems or have suggestions concerning the state. Federal Moderators connect the right addressees, support their working together, look for common ground and compromises. If no agreement can be reached, they make the final decision.

The State Directory contains profiles of all the ministries and parties and their departments or party wings can form groups there. Citizens can solicit all digital state services there and search for state officials using organigrams and cast their vote for their removal from office.

The Persons Directory provides all citizens with a profile and they can form groups of common interests and circles of friends. All personal data that the Residents’ Registration Office records on the identity card is stored here.

Liability insurance is offered for public servants and politicians, which covers civil claims resulting from negligence in office and the level of the premium is linked to the extent and frequency of mistakes made by all politicians.

Dynamic media democracy means that citizens participate in governance through various media and determine dynamically whether governance should be direct, indirect or representative, depending on their level of satisfaction. The Theories of dynamic media democracy describe how citizens can participate fully, partially or not at all in democratic co-determination. A dissatisfied population can elect and vote out politicians directly, draft proposals and vote on laws, spending and government decisions, or command politicians and ministries directly in an emergency. A satisfied population can become weary of elections and lend out their vote to party members or mandate councillors to take over the election of individuals, legislation and government by proxy until revoked. The procedures remain the same, but the voters change. The same applies if citizens of a municipality, nation or an international community of states desire different levels of participation or competences. This feature allows dynamic media democracy to be adapted to any common democratic state system in the world, whether the government of a city, a nation or an international community.

The Theory of collective consciousness through media is about citizens linking their minds through interactive state television and the intranet and making decisions together. The state then carries out these decisions.

The Theories of social psychological adolescence describe how similar humans and humanity are in their development and what challenges this poses for politics. Father State and Mother Earth are raising a child called humanity. With modern means of transport it has learned to walk, with global means of communication it has learned to talk. With dynamic media democracy, it is learning to think and act for itself. At some point it will leave the parental home, colonise new planets and find friends or enemies among aliens.

The Theory of the state as an entrepreneur describes how similar the policies of companies and states are to dynamic media democracy. The people own the firm, the politicians take over the management and the ministries take over the production. The state has a monopoly when it comes to legislation and the use of force within its own sovereign territory. Through stable conditions, it ensures profits bought about by self-sufficient economic cycles. Municipalities are subsidiaries and other states are competitors as long as they are not made partners through common laws, authorities and ministries.

The Theory of short chains of legitimacy states that citizens can elect or control the processes responsible for state powers and international agreements directly, without intermediaries, coalition agreements, the secret appointment of roles or deals.

The Goals of dynamic media democracy