Greetings!

I started this tribe to cover a subject that's very interesting to me as a political activist... direct democracy. This is about modern direct democracy (initiatives, referendums, recall, e-rulemaking, etc.) in a republican context, not simple direct democracy where the people decide everything (what DD detractors label "mob rule").

Direct democracy augments representative democracy--it doesn't replace it. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt once said "I believe in the Initiative and Referendum, which should be used not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative." This is indeed the essence of modern direct democracy.

For this tribe, I developed a very simple logo to start out with. This can be changed to something else, of course. But I didn't want to design a logo that had any personal bias in it, so I just used the name of the tribe for now.

Here's to a hopefully very interesting diret democracy tribe over the years ahead.

Regards,
Steve (www.democracy2.org)