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Why Canadians Are Detached From Politics

By Everyone's PartyPublished 4 years ago 5 min read
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Hello Everyone!

Let me start by explaining who we are, and what we have set out to do.

Over time, we've seen a lot of different economic and political structures, and to date, we see that none of them completely eliminate suffering.

Certainly each political structure has caused one problem by "solving" another.

Unfortunately, whether we look at countries that employ capitalism, communism, socialism, monarchies, dictatorships, they all have major, major problems, and whether or not those problems get solved is based on whether or not the current government cares enough to do anything about it.

Even when a leader or government is sympathetic to an issue, the infrastructure of the government is slow and sluggish in fixing the issue. Then we don't even know if the "solution" they provide actually will work, or whether these solutions are cookie-cutter solutions or personalized to the needs of the people in question.

Now, when a solution doesn't work or goes horribly awry, tensions arise between political parties and between citizens, friends, family and co-workers.

Elections can cause these same rifts in relationships, often leading to hate, anger, or worse, assault and even death.

But one thing stands clear.

The real change that needs to happen RARELY EVER HAPPENS.

To give you an example, the legalization of marijuana was a historic moment. Why was it historic?

If we think about it, its not that special. Our government just listened to us for once. Its actually quite sad that this was considered a major milestone.

We feel disenfranchised as a nation because we feel as if our government is no longer speaking for the people or representing the people's needs.

Especially when our democratic system allows someone with only 39% of the vote to lead our nation.

This dis-enfranchisement leads us to believe that our actions have no effect on the grand scheme of things, and that no matter what we want, the government won't listen anyway.

So we become dis-engaged from politics and we stop talking about the things that were once important to us, because we know it is futile.

Out of this frustration, Everyone's Party came into existence.

What if we turned the tables on the entire system?

At this point, you might be wondering, how the hell will Everyone's Party change that?

The truth is, most of the change would be up to you and your local community.

The Party's only responsibility would be to guarantee you, the citizen of this AWESOME country, the freedom and liberty to BE and to MAKE the change you want to see in the world.

After that, it would be up to you.

This is what we guarantee you.

We guarantee you liberty.

This is how we will accomplish it.

1. Decentralize the government. Local communities now write the rules. This means three major changes. One, rather than voting for a leader who rules EVERYONE, potential leaders will need to convince the people why they should follow them. Only those who have consented to this leadership will have to comply with the rules of leadership. Two, if you don't like your local leader's rules, you can simply decide to pick up and move out without any immigration hassle. Third, your local government's existence will be based solely on its efficiency and results. Bad government will be rooted out quickly and non-violently.

Our federal government will be in charge of three things. Ensuring that a national constitution that is centered in liberty but protects the citizens from heinous crimes is guaranteed throughout our great nation, the maintenance of interconnecting highways throughout Canada, and the maintenance of a reserve national defense force that remains within the confines of Canada and will ONLY be used in defense.

This will reduce our national budget by BILLIONS and we will be able to cut taxes to 5% or less while staying in the GREEN and paying off our debt to other nations.

What this means for us, the citizens.

Instead of leaders convincing a slim minority of people why they should vote for them, leaders will now have to convince people to follow them. A leader's power will only be in how many people decide to be led by them. Your voice will not only be heard, but each voice will be recognized as an independent voice, free of the implications of subversion.

We would now have freedom and responsibility to choose which public funds we would voluntarily donate your money to, rather than being forced to pay taxes to support public funds you don't support, or worse yet, don't even know exist, on pain of imprisonment.

You would have the freedom and liberty to choose with your immediate community what economic structure your community follows, what law enforcement would look like, what community taxes would look like, etc.

This also means we solve one of the greatest battles we have faced throughout the centuries, namely the battle between ideologies.

Capitalism versus socialism, freedom vs despotism, free markets versus high corporate taxes.

Not only this, but battles between marginalized groups, religious groups, and different ideologies will dissipate.

No matter who you are, nobody will be able to force you to do anything that goes against your beliefs, nobody will be able to force you to pay for a service you don't want to use, etc.

In this new system, truly everyone is free.

In this new system, race doesn't matter.

Gender doesn't matter.

Sexual orientation doesn't matter.

Political leanings don't matter.

All that matters is living what we believe.

If you believe in our vision for our AWESOME country, please like our Facebook page and support us here. Thank you!

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