Life is messy and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. Most messy is politics. Politics is the essential unending process which determines how we get along with one another and it is currently broken. Here's the problem - political parties. They are destroying politics. Think about this. In democracies we are allowed to vote and appoint a representative government. It doesn't happen. Everyone who is elected and the vast majority of folks who govern us are in a political party whereas the vast majority of us the voters are not members of political parties. Government is not representative. Also - folks who join political parties are not like the rest of us. These are people who check in their individuality at the desk. They buy into a package of ideas and they vote along party lines. We need to curtail the power of political parties and restore the power to you and me and that vast majority of folk who are not in a party.
Fortunately the solution is staring us in the face, you as you read this and me as I write. The internet will give us all access to decision making. A bit of tweaking and we can have open source government. More to follow - watch this space.
