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16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

Some day, make a collection of resources.


Turn some of these into blog posts to reduce space.


ADD:

What conservatives could have done

-ask the questions on history of US revolution

-culture or constitution questions and doc.



This explains the political system:


This is what fascists are trying to do:


There are other models.

The UN convention for the punishment and prevention of the crime of genocide has five different ways it can happen.


***For the script, make a list of questions you want to learn more about. Same script routine as the last ones.***

Question:

  • If all non-poverty related violent crimes were prosecuted, what would that take? Is there legal capacity for it?

  • Rainbow republicans: if people blindly vote republican, could progressive people run as republicans and win?

  • If everyone regardless of political orientation switched to the republican party, would that destroy it by reducing the percentage of fascists within the party?

  • Would it be possible to combine progressive political parties? Or are they too stuck up to mix? Or is there another reason?

  • How can you get a bill written?



Copy, paste to each goal, and fill out. Make a new one for each country:

Country:


Current Knowledge (& sources):

Stocks (nouns- people, places, things, vocab stuff)

Flows (how nouns move or change)

Systems & Archetypes (what the system is)

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops (what it is)

Current system traps (like vicious cycles)

Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

Goals

Self organization

Rules

Information Flows

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

Buffers

Numbers

Multiple


Add somewhere: Virtual/internet laws and courts, held at embassies or courts.


All GOALS:



People already think everything has irreversibly gone to shit. Give them a plan to work towards.



16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere


United States:

Current Knowledge (& sources):

Stocks

Flows

Systems & Archetypes

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops

Current system traps

Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

  • Reduce ideological violence by teaching cultural anthropology. This would go in information flows as well.

Paradigms

  • Use new legislation and change current legislation to increase the ability of people everywhere to enforce healthy boundaries.

  • Encourage the idea of breaking laws and policies for good reasons without consequence, rather than this only happening for bad things. This is a paradigm for prosecutors, judges, etc. Prevents death from moral injury situations. Add this ability described above as a rating category on a legislative scorecard; protections for zero-liability situations. (ex. A rule designed to prevent death can be broken to prevent death.)

  • Integrate a healthy lifestyle as a culture- in context of existing cultures or development of new culture where it does not exist. (such as in highly-capitalistic and individualistic communities) This lifestyle would be both for mental health and physical health. (This would also go under the Rules category as a social law)

Goals

Self organization

Rules

  • Make emotional, psychological, and narcissistic abuse illegal. Specifically make it illegal to seek supply as this would automatically make new, advanced forms of abuse illegal.

  • Make social murder illegal.

  • Use the spirit of the law, not malicious compliance. If a law is designed to prevent death, don’t let it cause death.

Information Flows

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

  • Sustainable Development Corps Program. This would reduce violence preventatively, if someone is worried about being a victim of violence they just make contact and are immediately escorted to the program.


Buffers

Numbers

Multiple

  • Promote and expand services for people struggling with violent ideologies, such as Life-After-Hate


16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

Country: United States


Current Knowledge (& sources):

Stocks

Flows

Systems & Archetypes

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops

Current system traps

Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

Goals

Self organization

  • Professional Friends (based on “it takes a village” idea): are not mandated reporters, service is available 24/7/365 for parents who need emotional support, assistance with domestic tasks, or other parenting needs. This is both for parents whose kids are at risk of entering the system and for foster parents.

Rules

  • Make ABA illegal

  • Make child marriage illegal

Information Flows

  • A class about abuse (all forms), sex trafficking prevention, parts of the body (especially genitals)geared specifically towards children, taught in K-12 education.

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

Buffers

Numbers

Multiple



16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all


Country: USA


Information Resource:


Current Knowledge (& sources):

Stocks

  • Levels of accessibility to become a police officer: The law enforcement application process is not accessible to most people, due to its focus on grammar, which is unreasonable with spell check, poor public education, and dyslexia and related disorders.

  • Police officers

  • Judges

  • Attorneys

  • Lawyers

  • Prosecutors

  • Jury members

Flows

  • Abusive people are attracted to positions in law enforcement. 40% of police officers commit domestic violence.

  • Violence increases when law enforcement experience staff cuts/shortages in a way that reduces the number of hours law enforcement is available

Courts:

  • People who show competency or ability to think critically are removed as prospective jurors

  • People are swayed by emotions, not evidence. Juries rarely make decisions based on evidence.

  • Culture in the United States is narcissistic, so many people have interest in incarcerating a person to achieve personal satisfaction

Systems & Archetypes

  • Public defenders:

  • Debtors Prisons:

  • The deadliest police department in the US:

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops

Current system traps

Law Enforcement:

  • People who want to become police officers and have good intentions experience violence or other barriers at the hands of police officers with bad intentions, thus increasing the percentage of people with bad intentions when they leave, never apply in the first place, or are killed

  • Police brutality against citizens also prevents people from becoming officers

  • People contact law enforcement to resolve trivial matters because they are afraid people can’t handle conflicts, the trauma that ensues when they are called decreases a person’s ability to handle conflicts, thus decreasing trust that trivial conflict can be resolved without law enforcement

Courts:

  • Judges and lawyers don’t want to go to court, so they make up a lot of charges so people with plead guilty with a plea deal, which leads to innocent people having records, which leads to lost trust in the system

Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

  • Reduce the amount of cases in courts by prioritizing prosecution on root-cause crimes, including class-action suits and systemic injustices

Goals

Self organization

Rules

Information Flows

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

  • Increase capacity to prosecute sexual crimes and crimes made against children and domestic violence victims/survivors

  • Increase capacity to prosecute hate crimes and discrimination

Buffers

Numbers

Multiple



16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime


Replace the needs organized crime fulfills through community care takers, positivity lines, and reformed law enforcement


16.5

Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms


16.6

Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels


This is what could happen in Florida. The main problem is that Cubans are turning to right-wing fascism after having left left-wing fascism, although some argue it was not fascism but a system damaged by the US embargo, someone else said something that had me thinking they could be the equivalent of people who fled the south when slavery ended.


Informational Resources:


  • See 16.7 for additional information.

  • Educate people on the similarities of relationships and how they compare to government; unhealthy relationship dynamics, domestic violence, exit costs, and how people continually fall into bad relationships.

  • Prompte transcending paradigms with this collaboration strategy for political solutions:

Current Knowledge of social services stuff: (I might have already put this in the other doc)

  • Demonstration programs

A guiding document is written by researchers from collaborating universities and research institutes.

  • RFP & grants

Organizations sometimes are required to match funds by 50%

  • Rating and review process

Meeting to give input on which programs should be given money and why. Might have take-home documents. Might not have anyone from the community.

  • Americorps- not allowed to use for policy changes, only charity.

  • Government contracts

Having to meet contracts minimums can mess things up when there's staff shortages



16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.


Country: United States

****Add 16.7 page from WW and the rest of the policy page.

Current Knowledge (with sources):

Stocks


This is how to join political action comiteees


Congressional Representatives:

Day in the life:

  • Senator

  • House Representative



  • Governor: The chief executive of the state, responsible for implementing and enforcing state laws, administering the state budget, and serving as the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard.

  • Congressional staffers:

  • Lieutenant Governor: Serves as the second in command to the Governor, and assumes the role of Governor if the Governor is unable to serve.

  • State Attorney General: The chief legal officer of the state, responsible for representing the state in legal matters and providing legal advice to state agencies.

  • Secretary of State: Responsible for overseeing state elections, maintaining official state records, and handling other administrative duties.

  • State Treasurer: Responsible for managing the state's finances, including investing state funds and administering the state's debt.

  • State Auditor: Responsible for conducting audits of state agencies to ensure that they are operating efficiently and effectively.

  • Superintendent of Public Instruction or Commissioner of Education: Responsible for overseeing the state's public school system and enforcing state education laws.

  • State Legislature: Each state has a legislative branch, usually consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Members of the legislature are responsible for passing state laws and approving the state budget.

  • Judges: State judges are responsible for interpreting and applying state laws in court cases, and are typically elected by the people of the state.

  • In addition to these positions, some states also have elected officials such as the State Agriculture Commissioner, State Insurance Commissioner, and State Labor Commissioner, among others.


The specific elected official positions for cities and counties in the United States can vary somewhat from place to place, but the following are some of the most common:


  • Mayor: The head of the city or county government, responsible for implementing and enforcing local laws, managing city or county services, and representing the city or county to the public.

Day in the life of a mayor:

Same person, shorter video, a year ago:

  • City Council or County Board of Supervisors: The legislative body of the city or county, responsible for passing local laws and ordinances, setting policy, and overseeing the operations of city or county agencies.

City Council:

Board of Supervisors:

  • City or County Attorney: The chief legal officer of the city or county, responsible for representing the city or county in legal matters and providing legal advice to city or county officials.

  • City or County Auditor: Responsible for conducting audits of city or county agencies to ensure that they are operating efficiently and effectively.

Day in the life:

  • Sheriff: Responsible for enforcing local laws and ordinances, serving warrants, and managing the local jail.

Day in the life:

  • Assessor: Responsible for determining the value of property in the city or county for tax purposes.

  • Clerk or Recorder: Responsible for maintaining official records of city or county meetings, proceedings, and actions.

  • Treasurer or Tax Collector: Responsible for collecting and managing local taxes, fees, and other revenue sources.

  • Superintendent of Schools: Responsible for overseeing the local school district and enforcing local education policies.

  • Municipal Judges: Responsible for presiding over local court cases and interpreting and enforcing local laws and ordinances.

  • Constables or Marshals: Responsible for enforcing local laws and ordinances and serving wa

Flows

Systems


GovernmentFederal StateCounty City Legislative Branch Congress: House of Representatives Senate State Assembly State SenateBoard of Supervisors?City Council OR Board of AldermanExecutive Branch PresidentGovernor Mayor Judicial Branch Supreme Court Federal District CourtState Supreme Court County CourtMunicipal CourtConstitution US ConstitutionState Constitution Law Enforcement Military FBI CIAHighway PatrolSheriff’s DepartmentPolice DepartmentOligarch’s powers Citizen’s powersVote for congress members and president


Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

  • People often only learn about government in K-12 education. If they do not use the information, they forget it.

Current feedback loops (mixed with system traps)

  • Shifting burden to intervenor: People often incorrectly believe issues caused by local and state government are caused by the federal government. Many do not consider candidates other than the president.

  • People with narcissistic personality disorder are attracted to elected positions because of the power, attention from the public, and easy implementation of narcissistic abuse dynamics

  • Future faking- broken campaign promises

  • Blaming minority groups- scapegoating

  • Public speeches and press conferences- attention as supply

  • People with machiavellian personality traits are attracted to elected positions because they can use those positions for personal benefit

  • People with dark personality traits are attracted to elected positions because they can maximize the harm they cause

  • Success to the Successful: People who are wealthy can easily become state and federal politicians because they can use personal resources to support their campaign strategy. They are also resourced in their free time and social connections.

  • Bought-out: Politicians serve who donates to their campaign, because their goal is to maintain power through re-election

  • Politicians serve who votes for them, because their goal is to maintain power through the most votes.

  • Politicians serve who contacts them, because their goal is to maintain power by re-election.

  • Letters to the editor influence local and state politicians to take action.

  • Letters to representatives in support of bills, especially when sent by groups of people, influence politicians to take action or vote in favor.

  • Exposes in local newspapers spur reforms. Local newspapers have been going out of business due to success to the successful issues with media companies online not required to follow libel laws (fake news)

  • Fake news has caused psychological problems for many people, and hits vulnerable populations hardest- those with anxiety disorders, CPTSD, cognitive or developmental disabilities, those who had poor-quality public education or homeschooling. The psychological impacts of fake news has caused people to attempt to overthrow the government from all levels-city to federal.


Current system traps

  • The Democratic party and big-city politicians ignore the needs of those living in rural areas, leading to anger from people in rural areas.

  • Neglect. People don’t take action, which causes more problems due to nothing being prevented or abuse increasing, which makes taking action more difficult in the future because more needs to be acted upon. (Fact check? Maybe neglect is just a flow issue)

  • Often progressive people don’t think voting matters, which leads to higher percentages of conservative voters, which leads to more conservative legislation, which leads to more progressive people believing voting doesn’t matter. (This point isn’t necessarily related to political parties)

  • Ratchet effect- Both the Democrat and Republican party are conservative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPuKVG1teQ (This video is on my watch list)

  • The rich gut government programs and funding for services, then blame the government for being inefficient, so people with resent the government and help them continue to remove funding.



Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)


Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)


It’s called the encyclopedia of US politics.


Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

Goals

Self organization

Rules

  • Ban people with traits of harm disabilities, the dark triad, and cluster-B personality disorders from running for office, and make it a fireable offense to display those traits.

Information Flows

  • Educate people on contacting their representatives. Calling is the quickest way. You can also write letters. https://radpride.wixsite.com/start-posting/post/notes-on-letters-to-representatives

  • Educate people on why voting is an important harm-reduction measure

  • When thinking about “fix it or start over?” Consider doing both at the same time.

  • To make reading bills and other government documents easier:

  • Identify unfamiliar words and use the google doc find and replace feature to switch it to a more simple word

  • For bills, if it’s something you heard about on the news, look through articles to see what sections you want to read and use the “find word on page” feature to jump to it

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

  • Remove incentives to those with narcissistic personality disorder by reducing their exposure to sources of supply- ban campaign speeches and replace them with resumes and records of what they have done, both positive and negative, as well as pre-written legislation they intend to pass.


Buffers

Numbers


Improve elections by:

  • Promoting Run for Something and having a guide for people to understand what information they need to know to do a good job, what the deadlines are, and what positions they can make the most impact in

  • Make a list of sustainable-development oriented legislation specific to states so candidates can feel confident running. (see 16.b) Also make a list of past progressive legislation that did not pass, so it can hopefully be passed again.

  • Improving online voting guides by volunteering to collect information for the guide


These are notes I have not yet integrated into the rest of this section:

Questions to consider:

What are characteristics of countries that are politically active?

How are people in the US already politically active?

If everyone in the US was politically active, what would change?


This tik tok is about protesting legislative staffers.


  • Everyone would know who their representatives were are write to them

  • In every major city, at least one person writing letters to the editor on progressive issues

  • Everyone would vote

  • Left-wing political parties

  • City budget alliances

  • People would write and sign petitions and ballot measures

  • Non-working union (a union for people who do not work. Ex. disabled)

  • If politicians messed up, they wouldn’t get reelected, because people would run for office and people would vote for them

  • Protests once a week in every major city.

  • In every major city, someone working to unionize the biggest employer that does not have a union (and other unions too!)

  • Sustainable development goals collaborator, to unite forces and achieve the goals

  • Virtuous cycle: the more people that cared and participated, the easier and more accessible it would as people fought for what they believed and completed projects.



16.8

Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance


16.9

By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration

  • (US) Hold government departments accountable for increasing customer service quality



16.10

Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements


Resource:

As usual there's a subreddit for everything. Per the Sidebar this is "Unprotected directories of pics, vids, music, software and otherwise interesting files." This is a place where people submit links to anything and everything that can be found on the hidden webpages of the internet.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download : Everybody knows Wikipedia, not everyone knows that there are sites where you can download all of Wikipedia. It can take up less space than you'd think, especially if you don't download the images as well.


16.a

Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime


Copy, paste to each goal, and fill out. Make a new one for each country:

Country:


Current Knowledge (& sources):


Stocks

Flows

  • People with CPTSD, developmental disabilities, cognitive disabilities, cognitive decline from aging, and mental illness are vulnerable to cult organizations, political extremism, propaganda, parasocial relationships, public manipulation, and related issues. Both conservatives and progressives have ableist attitudes that demonizes these populations and prevents solutions from being developed.

Systems & Archetypes

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops

Current system traps

  • Online algorithms radicalize centrists and conservatives into becoming conspiracy theorists and christian nationalists by increasing exposure to increasingly more radical ideas and censoring information that is factual or counters the ideas. The longer time they spend and the more things they click, the worse it gets.

  • The more propaganda is repeated, in any context, the more difficult it is to unlearn, as repeating something over and over makes a person believe it.

  • The overwhelming majority of conservative political commentators do not believe the points they discuss and believe their followers are unintelligent. They say controversial things that increase viewership, and thus income. Controversial conservative commentary is highly profitable.

  • These conservative political commentators do not believe they can stop making content or be honest with their audiences out of fears their followers will turn against them and become violent.


Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)

This is a fact-checking website:

Snopes.com


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

Goals

Self organization

Rules

Information Flows

Reinforcing feedback loops

  • Have people laugh together. Source: Hidden Brain podcast about laughing.

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

Buffers

Numbers

Multiple



  • Life After Hate is a group that helps people leave right-wing political extremism and connects people to social services in their area. Fundraising for and promoting this organization would help a lot. (They only have 10 employees?)

  • Make a campaign to expose people to algorithm-censored factual information. It would include informational resources for people to: (information is based on them being the target audience, resource guides I have seen in the past are geared for progressive audiences and not mindful of effective approaches)

  • understand cults, process addictions, and propaganda

  • question their own fascism

  • question their own christian nationalism (christian rebuttals to false beliefs)

  • question their own anti-feminism

  • question their own lgbt-hate

  • question their own racism and pro-colonialism

  • question their own pro-capitalist/anti-communist views

Have an introduction to, and advanced information sections for: (the difference is that these do not have to be catered to a conservative audience, but still need to remain unbiased)

  • Socialism

  • cultural anthropological view of alternative forms of government

  • Ex-religion

  • POC allyship & critical race theory

  • cultural anthropology

  • Co-ops and unions

  • Feminism

  • Queer theory

Have the educational resource list from the education goal section for those seeking information that may have not been taught to them in public education. Ex. Khan Academy, Crash Course.

  • Advertise the above project on:

  • conservative online forums

  • billboards in rural areas. Billboards in rural areas are relatively cheap, I think I heard 5 dollars a day? Billboards (and stickers below) would be thought-provoking quotes with the website URL.

  • Make a Redbubble with stickers.

  • Make a manga & anime that follows a Hetalia story structure, but for all United States history up to modern day, with each character representing a demographic or group. The manga will explain conditions as a dark comedy using family abuse dynamics. Many consumers of anime are conservative, so this can help people understand propaganda.


Ideas:

  • Force the independent party to choose a different name so people don’t accidentally join it.

  • If you combine the peace and freedom party, they are the 7th biggest. The Green party stays in the same place but the peace and freedom party go up and both would get momentum.

  • If you combined all the liberal parties (just went off by name) they would move up to the same spot the peace and freedom party currently has.

Task: Look at all the different ideologies and see which are similar and which are different.





16.b

Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development







Questions:

For disabled people, what's the bare minimum you have to be present? Can you use a telepresence robot? Can staffers help with accommodations? Can you vote ahead of time, if you can’t attend physically or remotely? Would it be practical to use legislative scorecards to make decisions if you can’t be present?


How do I decide what position would make the most impact based on my knowledge and experience?


If you already have basic values, ex.human rights, how much knowledge about government do you need to be an effective representative?


How can I find out if there are other democrats running? I’d prefer to run for something where other democrats are not running to be effective.


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