Because it's time for the American people to wake up and take a good look at their country and the kind of people who have been leading (or ruling) it for the past two hundred plus years. Because Americans are—and have been since the ratification of our Constitution—a representative democracy and not a true democracy.

Representative democracy is pseudo-democracy, but that's what we have, because our Founding Fathers were men of "privilege" and privileged people of all times and all places have feared true democracy for they devoutly believed that a true democracy and a quality education would give too much political power and knowledge to ordinary working Americans—and political power and knowledge in the hands of the working class would logically affect the wealth and profit-making opportunities of the wealthy, elite minority.

But don't take my word for it, read what Waller Karp has to say about U.S. Education systems:

"The public school system: 'Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity smashing individuality, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority'"

And now read the article Karp wrote titled The Teachinng of History, published in the May, 1980 issue of Harpers Magazine. It tells you exactly how the privileged elite programmed the working people of the United States to believe, for more than 200 years, that the U.S. is a true and wonderful democracy guided by idealistic and honest leaders. Actually, you should read anything of Mr. Karp's while his writings are still available to the public, and before they become inaccessible and invisible.

The policies and political actions of U.S. corporate and political leaders unquestionably are, and have long been, more beneficial to American corporations than to the American people. These so-called leaders have stolen lands from the Indians. They have stolen lands from the Mexicans. They have stolen the Philippines from the Philippine people and Hawaii from the Hawaiians. They have stolen Puerto Rico from the Puerto Ricans. They have stolen away profitable opportunities from many Latin American people for the benefit of large American corporations. For those of you with your heads still buried in the sand, we have been The American Empire for more than one hundred years. But empire and true democracy possess two very different kinds of political and economic structures, that create two very different kinds of culture and produce two very different kinds of citizens, who live two very different kinds of lives.

Read what Walter Karp says about the republic's Estblishment:

"Our rulers make the news, but the do not appear in the news, not as they really are--not as a political class, a governing Establishment, a body of leaders with great and pervasive powers, with deep, often dark, ambitions. In the Americaan republic the fact of oligarchy is the most dreded knowledge of all, and our news keeps that knowledge from us. By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in Americahave conferred on themselves the greaatest of political blessings--Gyges' rng of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public ealm lies steeped in twilight, an we call hat twilight news."

This is what Karp has to say about political parties:

The whole purpose of party organizations at every political level is to sift out, sidetrack and eliminaate men of independent political ambition, men whom the party bosses cannot trust"

For years American citizens have been underpaid, yet encouraged to spend and consume. So why the surprise that millions of individuals are now in debt, with millions jobless and homeless. The American dream is fast fading away; under attack by corrupt, greedy politicians and businessmen who have looted our treasuries and left the republic in a horrible mess. Our cities are in debt. Our states are heavily in debt. Our national government is actually bankrupt, having to borrow trillions of dollars from wealthy individuals and countries like China, just to keep the U.S. government viable. We are hobbled by fifty public education systems that produce ignorance, as our rulers refuse to allow the children of working families to learn the true history of the U.S. pseudo-democracy.

There is only one true democracy, and it is a bottom-to-top form of governance. It is a form in which individuals at the neighborhood level establish the values and make the laws of neighborhood and their country. "Representative" democracy, on the other hand, is the usual top-to-bottom form in which a comparatively few citizens at the top of the country's social ladder establish the values and make laws of the country. Every king, dictator, and tyrant has operated a top-to-bottom government. These two forms are not the same and the results of each are as different from one another as could possibly be. Nor are "conservative" democracies, "socialist" democracies, "liberal" democracies, or any other "adjectival" form of democracy valid democracies—they are all top-to-bottom forms and, therefore, they are all false.

Some of us, Americans, believe "enough is enough," and we have formed the American Institute of Direct Democracy. One of the Institute's functions is to inform you, the American citizen, why you have been forever told you live in a democracy—when you don't.

The Institute's Chapters For Change program is designed to help Americans learn the truth about the U.S. and learn about the benefits of a true democracy that no other form of government can offer. It's also designed to form the basis of a political party that once having won access to the U.S. political system for American commoners, will disapper forever, for all citizens maintain government in a true democracy and political parties are unnecessary.

Whether you know of it, or not, it's a truth that ordinary people of the world are tired of being abused by dictators, tyrants, and many so-called "leaders." Everywhere they demand, or experiment with, the processes of participatory government. Part of the Institute's function is to bring you news of these happenings, which you can read about on the Talk of the Town page via the World-wide Direct Democracy (WDDM) link or the MDD/DD Europe movement for Direct Democracy link.

We, of the Institute can only suggest what we believe to be the right direction, for when all is said and done, the changes to be made in the American System will not be made unless YOU, the individual citizen, actively participate in arousing other commoner citizens to join with one another and form the "Greater Political Force." Until that is accomplished, nothing of substance will change and you will be unable to choose the method and extent of change for a new American System.

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