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		<title>We need a true public space online!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Internet holds a lot of promise for connecting people around the world.  The problem is that it has been taken over by corporations for their benefit, not necessarily ours.  What is needed is a social platform that is owned by the people that use it, without algorithms pushing content that is negative and often &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/we-need-a-true-public-space-online/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "We need a true public space online!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What is Liquid Democracy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Liquid democracy is a hybrid form of democracy that combines elements of direct and representative democracy. It allows citizens to have a more dynamic and flexible role in the decision-making process. In a traditional representative democracy, people vote for elected officials who make decisions on their behalf. In a direct democracy, individuals vote directly on &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/what-is-liquid-democracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "What is Liquid Democracy?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>United States gets a B for Freedom!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Freedom in the World 2022 report from Freedom House gives the U.S. a grade of 83.  The U.S. has been in decline for the last 10 years. This was a decline from the 2019 score of 86, mostly the result of the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capital by Trump supporters and continued &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/united-states-gets-a-b-for-freedom/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "United States gets a B for Freedom!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Public vs Private</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2018/public-vs-private/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Somehow in recent time the concepts of public and private have become flipped. This was accelerated by Facebook and their confusing and changing privacy settings.  Their business model is to get or trick people to entry data into Facebook&#8217;s marketing database that they sell/give to other companies or is used to target advertising to you.  &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2018/public-vs-private/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Public vs Private"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Twenty-first Century Constitution</title>
		<link>https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2017/twenty-first-century-constitution/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, many people consider the United States Constitution to be a scared document, like the Ten Commandments from God, worshiped but never to be changed.  Even Thomas Jefferson knew that was not the right attitude about this document.  Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, from Paris September 6, 1789 wrote: &#8230;the earth belongs &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2017/twenty-first-century-constitution/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Twenty-first Century Constitution"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Twenty-first Century Democracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[240 years ago, our founding fathers made a huge leap from governance by divine right to the governance by the citizens. In a time before the use of electricity, steam engines, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, airplanes, they invented a way for citizens to govern themselves by choosing their leaders. They created organizations that &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2016/twenty-first-century-democracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Twenty-first Century Democracy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hello Citizens!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a lifetime of voting and becoming more involved in the democratic process, I became alarmed at the lack of input and real control that I had in the 21st Century U.S. democracy!  After a few years of trying to have some impact, I realized the invention of the 18th Century and years of gaming &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2016/hello-citizens/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Hello Citizens!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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