Thank Betsy for the invite.

I spent six years in a Canadian political party. As time moved on, I became more aware of the internal dysfunction I was seeing in politics.

While I was pondering this dysfunction on a long walk, I got a "eureka" moment. Within a couple of minutes, I got:

1) How deeply flawed western democracy really is,

2) Why western democracy cannot reform itself

3) An alternative democracy: no political parties.

That was in 1992. I left politics shortly after that.

I didn't think my ideas would ever see the light of day. But after I heard a couple of political scientists give their opinions on improving democracy, I could see that they had no idea of what was really wrong. So they could not fix anything. That was in 1997.

In 2000, I self-published my first TDG book. Three more versions in 2004, 2009, and 2017; each one is getting better.

The link is my TDG essay on Medium. It is a 15-minute read. Hopefully it will entice you to read my book:

https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/the-tdg-essay-cf48e4b4a1eb