America is a "true" democracy as opposed to the "pseudo" democracy currently used by the American people. It is a political system within which all citizens, rich and poor, male and female, white and colored participate directly in selecting the values, laws, and regulations affecting their lives.

No! That's propaganda preached by rich minorities of all places and times, and it's not true. The efficiency of government is totally dependent upon its design. If its powers are restricted to the legitimate needs of the citizenry and of society, and if government is prohibited from interfering with an individual's personallife and choices, such a government can never become tyrannical.

Moreover, this theory of the common people's potential to become tyrants is constantly being proven wrong by citizens of other countries who have already incorporated into their political systems such deliberative processes as Citizen Planning Cells created by Professor Peter Dienel of Germany. This system has proved that unknowing and uneducated people, once fully informed of the problems and all the possible options, can make decisions equally as competent as any legislator, and often better.

Inherent in a functional system of true democracy is an educated citizenry. Theoretical "America" provides every citizen with an essential educaton: the necessary knowledge, skills, and discipline to effectively administer government and attend the welfare of society.

All political systems ever to exist on planet Earth, from rule of one, such as in a dictatorship, to rule of few, such as in the Roman Empire, to rule of many but not all, such as in Classical Greece have been "them against us" systems; hierarchical systems; systems hostile to their common citizens; systems that created negative, unhealthy social environments for commoners.

What the people of planet Earth haven't seen is a government managed by all of its citizens; a form of management by which all contribute to mold the values and laws governing their lives. Only such a politically organized society, with its ability to thoroughly diffuse political and economic power holds the potential to create a comparatively classless society; a society in which no individual or group has the power to send other citizens to fight and die in unnecessary and unwanted wars; a friendly society which cares for and nurtures all of its citizens.

The function of this website, as it is with some others, is to create a virtual meeting place around which discontented American commoners who wish to make this a better country may rally. It is irrelevant whether the cause of discontent is racial discrimination, chauvinist abuse, economic injustice, environmental destruction, dishonesty, whatever. This web's objective is to unite and fuse common Americans into the country's greatest political force, change the Americn political system, and then intiate the common sense changes that our "leaders" stubbornly refuse to make.

Strategies and objectives are based upon the following six premises:

1. We, working commoners, must actively produce such change ourselves, now, before the corporate rush for global rule removes the opportunity for us to do so peacefully;

2. Neither our political, religious, nor economic rulers will ever attempt to make these changes, for if it were on their agenda, they would have attempted it by now;

3. The core reasons for changing the system are the flagrant bias of the American System towards rich, white, privileged males, the deliberate removal from common Americans of hard earned civil liberties, and the subversion of whatever chance the US ever had of becoming the planet's first true democracy.

4. There isn't time to wait for the various activist groups to realize that all the problems they confront are the consequences of class bias and the misuse and abuse of economic and political power by wealthy Americans.

In essence, privileged citizens of this country have been waging a war against common working Americans for over 200 years, but working Americans of post WWII generations aren't aware of this truth, as their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were, and they don't understand that their separate battles are merely minor battles that can provide only minor victories.

It is a unified war that must be fought and it is the war against the "American Establishment"—those powerful, wealthy Americans who control the nation's corporate, financial, and political systems.

5. The only way to fight this war is to marshall the forces of those who fight for black rights, female rights, environmental rights, human rights, social rights, labor rights, and family rights. And the only way to win the war is to give the millions of voters who have withdrawn from the system and don't vote, a reason for voting;

6. There are no other logical options for thinking Americans who wish to claim the rights and fair treatment they have been denied for so long, and which only a true democracy promises to deliver.

Yes, and no! In a way it is, but it isn't a new revolution being proposed. It's a continuation of the one begun in 1776 and diverted with sneaky words by the American privileged for their own benefit.

It's the change expected by every American colonist who fought to discard rule of the English king. It's the change advocated by the farmers of the late 19th century in their fight against moneylenders and the undue concentration of wealth and power. It's the change advocated by the young Americans of the '60s and '70s in their Port Huron Manifesto. It's the change for right over wrong. It's the change from pseudo-democracy to true democracy. And it's a change long overdue.

Yes! But the major drawback of this republican form is that there are too many chiefs and too many powerful self-interests. There are fifty states and one federal government. The people are ruled by fifty-one different sets of political and economic gangs. There are fifty-one sets of laws, and fifty-one sets of taxing formulations. Many Americans haven't really understood that the U.S.A. isn't a single country, but merely an association of states (which in Europe are called countries).

Fictional "America," on the other hand, is a single, unified, political structure. It's citizens are truly "Americans," all governed by one set of laws and one set of taxes. There are no professional politicians, for the people administer government and make the laws.

"Government is best which governs least" is true, and always will be true, when applied to them-against-us governments such as found in hierarchical social systems; governments comprised of people whose interests are unrelated to the interests of the governed; governments that allow these people to care for their interests at the expense of the governed.

Such a statement is neither true, nor relevant, in a true democracy where the government is us All of us.

Tell, at least, one person a day about this site. Buy one of the books listed in the webstore and read how a true democracy might function, and how working people would benefit. Form—or join—a Chapter for Change and help us to build an educated force for true democracy and true freedom. Tell your friends and associates to form, or join, a Chapter for Change and to buy one of the books also.

Begin reading about true democracy and visit the websites recommended on our Talk-of-the-Town page to see how many other alarmed and discontented Americans, individuals and groups, realize it's time for serious change.

We'll also take any contributions you might wish to make to the cause of true democracy. You and all the other common, working citizens of the United States are the only ones who can transform the idea of change into the reality of change.

The arguments for change found on this website and in the books are all based on a really simple truth: "if you don't reach for the brass ring, you can never grab it!"