Saturday, March 15, 2014

Democracy lost a great champion. His words live on.

His statements are far more interesting about modern day democracy. He believes in democracy. He believes it is the great equalizer where monetary wealth leaves off. A really interesting statement, "Democracy is still controversial."

His reality about democracy is that it is the best moral government any country could practice. To Tony Benn, democracy wasn't an ideology or campaign rhetoric, it was a morality every person could live with. To him it was a practice of life's promise. A birth right if you will. To him, insurances to democratic practices were insurances to life itself.

Tony Been would see any interpretation of a democratic constitution lies in the embodiment of it's conception and not it's parsed words. In other words, the ideological deciphered interpretation of the USA Constitution by the Robert's Court in regard to Citizen's United is a coup upon democracy itself and it's embodied reality of an equalizer.

The idea money has equality of citizenship is a violation of the definition of democracy itself. 

Citizen's United resulted out of a belief system not a democratic process.Those that believe the Supreme Court should stand unquestioned by legislation to return democracy are not interested in equality.

Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.

Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all of the aforementioned areas. Bullying, harassment or victimization are also considered as equality and diversity issues.

What is lack of equality and how is it enforced?

Diversity aims to recognise, respect and value people’s differences to contribute and realise their full potential by promoting an inclusive culture for all.

Diversity is a tool to instill and maintain democracy to dissolve discrimination.

We can promote equality and diversity by treating all fairly, create an inclusive culture, ensure equal access to opportunities to fully participate in the learning process, enabling all to develop to their full potential equipped with the skills to challenge inequality and discrimination and ensure policies, procedures and processes don't discriminate.

Voting to place legislators into the power of our democracy protects it and upholds it's morality. Honor the Middle Class when voting.