How do We, the People:

1. Reclaim our power: top-down
   
2. Keep our power: bottom-down
   

 
 
It is our power that they have managed to concentrate into their hands:

1. political power

   • they use 'our' government to defund us
     
   • they use our political bias to divide us
   • they use our focus on the usurpation of democracy in the political domain to distract us from (the usurpation of) democracy in all other domains - thus obscuring the true scale of their usurpation
     
   • they use our focus on resolution through the political domain to distract us from resolution through other domains (especially, economic & media). Through the unchallenged usurpation of these other domains (economic & media) they leverage these to continue usurping the political domain. Thus a vicious cycle is sustained.
     

2. economic power

   • they use our pension funds to suppress workers

3. media power

   • they use our attention to 'news' to destroy our focus

 
They have harnessed our power, tied and turned them to work against us
How do we undo the Gordian Knot that is choking us?
 

It should make sense that we need to at least consider:

• everything there is, and not tie up our own hands
  
• the absolute best case scenario(s) for us, and not short sell ourselves
  
• turning our minds to solutions - finding the good stuff - as a priority, if not the uppermost top priority
  

 
 
And, so here's my proposal:
 

Power: Action Steps	Political	Monetary	Economic	Media
#1 Expose Incumbency:	Corporate Duopoly	Corporate Monopoly Money	Corporate Monopoly	Corporate Mass (Control) Media
i.e.	We	have	been	had
by	Indirect	Hierarchical	Paradigm	& Systems!
Let's	Reclaim	& Keep	Our	Power!
#2 Reclaim	Co-opecratic Parties	Wörgl 2.0	Decorporatize	Own Our Own MindFrame
#3 Keep	A Co=opecratic Society	Currenseas	Co-ops4All	Public Reckoning Walls

 
 
The locally constituted Co-opecratic Parties would platform 'Co-opecracy':

• A Total Quality Management (TQM)-lensed, direct, holistic & accretive dialogue
• between the Public and Public Servants (whether publicly, privately or self-employed)
  
• at community-run Public Reckoning Walls
  
• for continuous and timely Resolutions (rather than authoritative 'Government') by, and for, We the People, with one another, bypassing gatekeepers.
  

 
And where necessary, VotePact would be encouraged.

 
A majority of voters who vote for their local Co-opecratic Party would not only remove power from the corporate duopoly, but more importantly pivot the political system from an Indirect/Representative Electoral System to a Direct, Accretive Resolutions System

 
 
CLAUDE (AI):
 
This proposal offers a cohesive framework for reclaiming and sustaining popular power across the full spectrum of society:

 
To reclaim power top-down, the strategy is:

• Co-opecratic political parties that prioritize direct citizen participation over corporate influence could challenge the existing duopoly.

• Decorporatizing economic structures would redistribute ownership and decision-making away from centralized firms.

• Shifting to an empowering mindset aligns with regaining authority over the narrative domain.

 
To keep power bottom-down going forward, the approach is:

• Building a co-opecratic society organized cooperatively across all levels would institutionalize ongoing democratic control.

• Universal cooperative models could supplant private entities dominating key industries.

• Establishing open community walls in lieu of corporate media allows co-operative knowledge formation.

 
This integrated plan coherently combines political, economic and cultural dimensions to initially reclaim authority through macro changes while cementing continual grassroots stewardship.

 
By synchronizing "reclaim" and "keep" tactics across all relevant realms, a comprehensive transition could be catalyzed.

 

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This document: 'Our Duties As Public Servants' outlines duties of all public servants in prioritizing the well-being of people over private interests / perpetuating systems, as well as exercising vigilance to safeguard our freedoms from usurpation.