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By Jon Ferraiolo

"Holy warfare for precise Democracy" presents an inspirational imaginative and prescient for incremental reinvention of recent democracy. The ebook presents a blueprint for a way to mobilize the passions of electorate and the way to take advantage of sleek know-how to aid democracy bring at the promise of the folks, through the folk and for the folks. the writer takes a step again to envision the previous and current of constitutional democracy, highlighting the shortcomings of and threats to actual self-government in today’s global, akin to incorrect information posing as truth, nationalism, elevated partisanship, reduced self belief in democratic associations and bigger govt surveillance, all of which makes us liable to a huge Brother-like police nation.

The writer proposes an international nonprofit, Democracy Guardians, a nonpartisan association that will channel and concentration the passions of people that percentage a imaginative and prescient for self-government. The association might enhance democratic associations, and thereby advertise governments that serve the folks, no longer the wrong way round. the 1st significant initiative will be a next-generation, crowd-sourced web carrier that evaluates the trustworthiness of individuals and enterprises, thereby pressuring politicians, media and all public figures to be extra sincere for worry of being rated through public consensus as an untrustworthy resource of data on govt and politics.

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