Introduction
There have been many questions about exactly what The People’s Parliament is. There have been inquiries about its existence as a type of third party. Additionally, the writings on this subject have referred to both “The People’s Parliament” and “The United States People’s Parliament (USPP)”. In this article, we’ll delve into exactly what The People’s Party represents, the meanings behind both of those names, and why these distinctions matter.
Political Revolution, Not 3rd Party
The People’s Parliament is not a third party. It is a philosophy that both details the true power of The People and provides a means to harness and focus that power for the good of The People. It is a blueprint for a political movement that is party-agnostic, unshackling the people from calcified ideological dogma that political parties become ensnared within. Parliamentary principles provide a means for the citizenry to cut through this coagulation of party-driven directives that both mute political will and disallow social advancement for the benefit of the collective. Further, it is not nation-specific. The concepts discussed within “The People’s Parliamentary, Part I: Introduction” refer to the ability of any people to gather into community and retake their power from the government, when they believe that they are no longer being properly served by their regulatory establishments.
The United States People’s Parliament (USPP) is the expression of The People’s Parliament within the United States of America (U.S.A. or U.S.). As we see in “The People’s Parliament, Part III: How It Is Structured”, the recommended organization mirrors the current political structures for the U.S. local, state and federal voter aggregates. This guidance is provided because it is believed to be the most beneficial for the optimal galvanization of the U.S. citizens’ voting power.
Other nations would likely have a different structure, based upon their unique political configuration. It is recommended that local-citizen, political activists take up the charge of serving counsel for ideal structures to meet the needs of concentrating their constituent power, as appropriate. The direction to have incumbent nationals take up this work is to ensure community confidence in the movement, thus maximizing both adoption of and adherence to parliamentary principles.
The Philosophy Behind The People’s Parliament
The ideas behind the need for The People’s Parliament are derived from a common pattern that many sovereign nations have fallen into. At some point, the government reaches a political gridlock that stifles the political will to serve The People in primacy. Following this regulatory failure and once the citizenry have suffered beyond their capacity to cope, a civil response is launched. Often throughout history, this civilian reply has been physically violent, but this is not always the case. In most cases, the underserved have been deprived of basic rights and access to vital resources, causing large-scaled suffering among the populace. This is usually what incites public outcry and uprising. After the uprising, there could be many different outcomes. The abusive government could remain in power, another faction with selfish aims could assume control, or the people could dictate their new leadership. In the case that The People prevail, a new political equilibrium can be reached, once the citizens restructure the nation to their needs. Typically, once the political system has been corrected, per the desires of The People, the populace returns to normal life, as new ideological factions form and vie for the opportunity to prove their new political philosophies through enacting governance, based on their principles.
The People’s Parliament is meant to provide a guiding structure that The People can use to achieve the ends of a societal response that limits large-scale suffrage, ensures citizen-driven governmental occupation, and promotes people-first political restructuring, with a focus on political and economic intervention versus physical confrontation, thus both achieving the revolutionary goal and minimizing unnecessary harm to the populace.
Let’s take a look at the revolutionary progression, as discussed above.
The People’s Parliament – Revolutionary Cycle
The principles and guidelines of The People’s Parliament are meant to provide a political structure for the The People to utilize when managing their own political revolution, taking back power from corrupt regulatory agencies and rebuilding their government to their own specifications.
Level 1: Political Gridlock
At a certain point, a government may encounter political gridlock. In this state, political parties become calcified in their ideology and dogma, showing an inability to be flexible enough to meet the needs of the people. Additionally, and in the current case of the United States, political parties are susceptible to bribery, coercing both their legislative and policy-making powers towards the benefit of the minority, wealthy elite versus the needs of The People.
What This Looks Like:
- Officials openly receiving bribes.
- Inability to address infrastructure needs.
- Inability to address workers’ rights.
- Inability to address economic viability: excessive taxation, lack of growth opportunities, lack of ability for the working class to attain assets, etc.
- Overall degradation of quality of life for the citizenry.
We discuss the realities of these kinds of issues in “What We Have Forgotten”, as well as discussing the right and power of The People to correct these injustices.
Level 2: Societal Response
At this stage of the cycle, The People gather in their chambers of parliament, build community and solidarity, strike against the system, and take back power. This is done by realizing that The People are in the majority and have all of the power. Elected officials only hold power so long as the citizenry consents to such. By uniting together in parliament, the people focus their collective will against the system, remove their consent, and force the entire system to stall. This inherently removes power from political officials and puts it back into the hands of The People.
What This Looks Like:
- The People gather in communities, build solidarity, and decrease dependence on the system.
- The People boycott the economic system, crippling the nation’s financial engine.
- The People strike, removing their labor and damaging the economic system’s ability to function.
- The People begin usurping elected positions from career politicians, leveraging their direct votes to nullify the money injected into the political landscape.
With regard to the current political challenges in the United States of America, we can find a more thorough discussion of The People’s options for response in “United States People’s Parliament – Civil Disobedience Framework, Part III”.
Level 3: Governmental Occupation
Once The People assert control over the system, they would then elect themselves into the seats that hold official regulatory power over local, state, and national governance. Citizens vote each other into office, in order to capture a quorum of seats across the nation that allow them to rewrite the political and economic framework through legislation and policy that holds The People in primacy.
What This Looks Like:
- Political parties are suspended, in favor of governance that is based on solidarity amongst the citizenry.
- The People elect working class citizens across the country, holding 75% or more of all elected seats, creating the ability to reform all codes of law, including the editing and/or amending of founding documents.
- Elected parliamentary representatives overturn harmful legislation and policies.
- The People dictate new legislation and policies that benefit The People first and foremost.
- etc.
This stage is both aggressive and audacious. However, it is absolutely possible and wholly necessary, when considering the requirements for political change in the U.S. – and in any other politically stagnant nation – that places The People in primacy. For more details on how The People’s Parliament can enable the overwhelming, undeniable power of The People, we can refer to the following:
- How The People’s Parliament Structure Enables The People’s Governmental Occupation: “Full National & Global Expressions” in “The People’s Parliament, Part III: How It Is Structured”
- A Roadmap Leading The People of The United States Toward a True Democracy of Their Making: “A Roadmap to Democracy” in “United States People’s Parliament – Civil Disobedience Framework, Part IV”
Level 4: Reaching Equilibrium
As the current societal emergencies are alleviated through political revolution and political and economic regulations are being tuned to attend to the needs of the collective, new, competing, political ideologies will form through debates in parliamentary chambers. These new ideologies will coalesce into new political parties.
What This Looks Like:
- Parliament chambers may start debating new economic systems that work best for the new political framework and focus.
- Chambers may begin debating new democratic structures (new branches of the federal government or restated purposes for current branches, etc.).
- These new ideas will form into new political ideologies that will generate new political parties.
Level 5: Return to Parties
Eventually, The People will want to return to their lives and enjoy the new society they have created. There will be a return to politics driven by parties, as society moves into a new age of social evolution, exploring new political ideas through practice.
What This Looks Like:
- The People will return to individual life focus (family, careers, hobbies, etc.), enjoying the new social and economic prosperity that they have provided for themselves through laws and policies that protect them from governmental overreach.
- Those interested in politics will gather in parties, separated by new political philosophy.
- The new parties are constrained by the guardrails put in place by The People in “Level 4: Reaching Equilibrium” (above). This should prevent new political parties from infringing upon the rights of The People.
Repeat
“Level 5: Return to Parties” (above) continues until and unless we progress back to “Level 1, Political Gridlock”. This is where we repeat the revolution cycle, until we have reached a level of political maturation and sophistication that we no longer need this process.
What This Looks Like:
- Political Parties find some way to circumvent the legal and policy frameworks that guard against overreach, attempting to restrict the rights of The People based on extreme ideology.
- Wealthy private interests attempt to usurp power through financial coercion of elected officials.
- Parliamentary sentries, appointed from among the people, keep watch for governmental corruption, calling all back to parliament, when the need arises.
In Closing
In General
The People’s Parliament is a political philosophy that represents a format for The People to organize in community and force their will upon an errant system that has been corrupted by both bad actors and a corrupt political framework, resulting in neglect of the needs of its constituent citizens. It represents the call for political revolution and is a blueprint for “Consolidating the Will of The People”.
In Specific
The United States is clearly in a state of political gridlock, as called out in “What We Have Forgotten”. The time for the United States People’s Parliament is now.
The Republican party has proven anti-democratic.
The Democratic Party is largely neo-liberal, preferring to defer to monied interests, ignoring the needs of their constituent citizenry.
Only The People, free of party-dictated dogma, have the answer to correct our course.
Solidarietas Populi