Purpose of the Alberta Democratic Movement

# Our Purpose

1. **Favorable and enjoyable politics for common folk:** We want to be a reminder to people that the reason politics is bad is because of the lack of involvement of the people and we want to change people's mindset that "politics is favorable" and "politics is enjoyable" thereby increasing their involvement in politics. Increasing people's involvement in politics brings goodness to politics by providing (1) Effective ideas by collective thinking (2) Low stress by consensual decision (3) Checks-Balances on corruption and abuses since now more people are watching.
2. **Defend and Fight off Fringe Issues:** All problems are problems that need to be taken care of. However, there are two limitations to accepting all problems, (1) Limited resources, (2) Some problems might not even be problems. It is common knowledge that "crying baby always gets the milk", "squeaky wheels get the grease". It could be argued that a lot of people crying means that the problem is important or urgent but people could be tricked by deception and dishonesty or simply by claiming "errors and omissions" "We did a mistake". It is a fact that media business is dwindling. Advertising revenues are dropping, viewers are going away. Media is finding it hard to bring people to read its papers or watch its shows and they put the news and air the show not to entertain or inform people but they want to earn money by advertisements. It is natural that media will do anything for more advertisements for which they need more viewers and more readers. Hence the "sensationalism" and nowadays everything is a "Breaking News" opening with a hundred trumpets and visual fireworks. Media needs material to hold the viewers so media is grabbing anything that is new and anything that could be narrated as "outrageous" The Media is not fake, it just wants more readers to make money and the only way is to "hold them by the emotional collar". Hence lot of fringe issues are promoted by the media which starts to "snowball" and forms a chicken and egg. People start to say "media says it hence I am worried" and now media says "People are saying that they are worried" and then people say, "people are worried" this becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. If this is unchecked society will be made to work harder and harder and the sort of slavery will set in. Our movement will defend and fight of these fringe issues.
3. We have 4 pet projects which will be our main focus once we come to power for the first time:
	1. **Democracy:** We want to make a way that each vote elects someone in the party they support and each vote counts and does not go waste.
	2. **Basic Wage Job Guarantee:** We want to make a system in which no one is refused a Basic Wage Job. If people want to honestly work for money then they should have work guaranteed by the government. This will eliminate 30% of stress from society and wil have indirect benefits like reduced dependence on drugs, social assitance, etc. The unresearched cost of this program is $1.5 Bn assuming a job guarantee of 60,000 people, which will sustain the unemployment rate to 3% or below. If required funds will be generated by implemnting a Provincial Sales Tax of 5%. Alberta cannot escape the PST for a long time. It is only a matter of time and which mouse will tie the bell to the cat. The people very well act smart and get something in return for the PST. Instead of future politicians offering nothing in return for a PST.
	3. **Education Time Guarantee:** In addition to guaranteeing a Basic Wage, we also want to guarantee "time" for people who want to upgrade themselves by education or training so that they come out of the rut and prosper.
	4. **Productive Education****:** The current school education has become redundant and wasteful and we want to make a "Productive Education" system. For e.g. A drywall installer must have learned dissection of a frog in his school or a Doctor might have learned about igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Which is meaningless to teach them. And the taxpayer is paying the money to teach "garbage". Not only that, a fresher from school does not know how cash till works, and how to handle an irate customer. And after spending 10 years in school the fresher has to go through another week of training causing loss of production to the employer as well as time loss for the student.
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## Truly we are Indivisible

   Our society is like a billiards board. Each member of our society, whether it is the rich, middle-class, poor, educated, not-so-educated, immigrant, or born-and-raised are unknowingly deeply connected to each other, and when one member in the society has a problem the others in the society are impacted too. The truth is society is indivisible.For e.g. In society, some people drive American trucks and some people drive Japanese Small Cars, and some prefer to own no automobile and take the transit.

## Politics

But then someone (politician) comes along and talks to one of the identifiable groups and says "I can help you get more". When offered, no human can resist the temptation to "being helped".The drivers start to think "maybe this person can help us" and thus starting a divide between the drivers of American trucks and the drivers of Japanese Small cars and the transit goers.

   Things that were not noticed and not an issue before are highlighted and brought to the surface by the politician. Like for e.g., The politician says "having too many headlights in an automobile is wrong because it disturbs the vision of the other driver" and when people are not listening to the politician then adds a "morality" element to the issue."You are having too many, you have more than what you need, you are greedy" and then they bring the health and safety aspect which people cannot refuse "People may die because of those lights. Don't you want to stop people from dying?" and then pushes for a law to restrict headlights. Now among the divided people some may cheer and celebrate the law, though they might have nothing to gain from it, and others may be grumbling about the loss of freedom and consider the law to be "stupid". This my friend, is "politics". Politics is not good, because it divides people and pits father against the son, neighbor against neighbor. The very nature of politics is to divide people and side with one of them. But naturally, we are indivisible as a society. I need you as much as you need me. The separation starts in things of not my concern. I don't care what you eat for breakfast. But as a bus driver, I need you to drive me to work. As a rich person, I need you to loan me money for my business. As you are plumber I need you to fix my washroom for me. I don't care what TV programs you watch. But politics needs to be divisive. Pitting bus drivers against passengers. Rich against the poor. Regulated trades against consumers. Politics needs to be divisive in order to get attention, divided people pay attention. Angry people support more. Believers will pay money as a donation. Politics needs all these three: attention, support, money.

## Bad Politics

### The reason is, people, and the conduct of politics

Politics is not good, but what we should fear is bad politics, which is one of the worst that can happen to a society. What is bad politics? Who does it? How do they come into politics in the first place?. Bad politics runs a vicious cycle. Bad politics begets even more bad politics (by removing the good from the system). Like the chicken and egg story. Which came first? bad politics or the reason for the bad politics.

 It is a bitter truth, but politics is bad because of the people who vote. It cannot be any other way. There are two bad issues with people that results in bad politics. (1) People do not vote, (2) People do not talk to each other. For e.g. there are 5 friends watching a ball game and they are hungry. They then request one of the friends to get some food, assume what will happen if no one talks to each other on what they want, what they like, or what they dislike and the friend brings food? We eat it with displeasure or we just waste it. One of the friends might already know that "x" food is not what is advertised. But they did not say it because of fear of "I don't believe you" or fear of being suspected of personal bias for "x" food. People it will seem, do not trust other people in a social setting that is why we have door locks and car locks. But it is not a lack of trust that puts people on the defense. It is the possibility that "there could be" a thief that makes people put locks on doors. The point is we still are living in stone age and caves. The way we deal with politics is the same way a 1000 years ago.

Politics just like religion has not changed the way it is conducted.

* The way we have sex has changed, more people are enjoying it.
* The way we have food has changed, more people are eating timely, fresh and healthy options,
* The way we talk (phone) has changed, we now can talk to people on the other side of the globe.

But the way we still do politics has not changed. People are closeted, afraid or uncomfortable to talk to each other. Most of them passive to politics and labeled as "deniers" or "racists" and the aggressive ones are hated by others and labeled as "libertards" and "tree huggers".

The quality of the food is only as good as the quality of the chef and the quality of the chef is only as good as the person who hired the chef.But the boss would say "What can I do" "I can only choose from the people who come for the interview" . Then have more people come to the interview. That is the only solution to increase the chances of getting a good chef, which will increase the chances of getting quality food or get quality politics that works for all people.

### Creates Stress

It is known that bad politics causes stress. Not many people think about politics but when they do think about it creates stress.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-fbi-didnt-commit-errors-and-omissions-it-abused-its-power
2. ↑ https://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/2/13499004/print-newspapers-dying
3. ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/
4. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/media/television-advertising.html
5. ↑ https://nypost.com/2014/04/19/cnn-finally-taken-to-task-over-breaking-news-that-isnt/
6. ↑ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/09/05/news/international-media-spread-two-fake-stories-about-canadian-immigration-its-weird
7. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/todays-political-climate-is-bad-for-some-americans-health-11570455824
8. ↑ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/25/764216567/is-politics-stressing-you-out-heres-how-to-keep-caring-without-losing-your-cool