[atlarge-discuss] Democracy and it's Borders

["Jkhan" <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>]

The oxymoron: "Democracy and it's Borders" 
Democracy has no Borders, except those that we construct.  These 'Constructions' are precisely the problem as they create 'Difference' to which opinion is attached, and exploitation of the differences are used to subordinate, creating a hierarchy though which economic advantage is achieved, and thus anti-thesis of Democracy.

Anyway.... ,

I propose the adaptation of a NSCS (Nation-States Code System) that includes all Nation-States, that means over 400+ unique identifiers, then Sub-Domains for Groups. The point being, lets try to include everyone we can, in anyway they want to be included.

James

Re:
>> 2. do we allow "locals" to use a "sub-domain" of the attlarge.org domain:
> I would be in favor of this idea. But not only "locals". Also transborder "parties"  or other groupings.

>>3. (following 2) what criteria do we use for allocating such a sub-domain, without being "power-hungry":
>I'd rather leave it as free as possible but the minimum criterion should be that they maintain a list of verifiable members so that their voting power can be measured against it.