Long-time readers of Majority Rights may recall an ancient, and now lost to the bit-bucket, essay of mine called “The Electoral Corruption Killer” advocating something I called “The Open Proxy Party” to address betrayals of We The People by Congress, such as overriding the will of more than 80% of the public on immigration so as to surrender the electronic frontier to India in the cyberwar that is now over for all intents and purposes.

Well…

The delegate network is an open sourced implementation of a completely transparent, easy-to-use and understand version of what is sometimes called liquid democracy.  “Easy-to-use” means bridging the digital-divide to plain old telephone service voice interaction, rather than relying on personal computation devices such as smart phones or even personal computers.  “Completely transparent” means all transactions are immediately made public.  “Easy to understand” means all the participant needs to understand is the concept of at-will delegation of their voting power to someone they trust personally.

Imagine a phone number answered by an instance of the Delegate Network. You, as a registered voter, call that number. Say “John Doe of Centerville” and hang up. Later, the registered voter, John Doe of Centerville calls the Delegate Network and votes on bills before the US House of Representatives, but his count as TWO votes: His and yours. He’s your “delegate”. More people delegate to him. His power grows. But John Doe of Centerville is only human. You call the Delegate Network and say “audit”. The Delegate Network reports how your voting power has been used on a bill you deeply care about. Power corrupted him. You say “recall”. Instantly, he wields one less vote against people like you. You know others that trust him. You call to warn them. Even after discussions, some disagree with your opinion. Others agree. He loses more power. Since the Delegate Network is publicly auditable at all times, news of his betrayal spreads to most everyone that trusted him. All have an incentive to communicate in more depth than a Facebook post or Tweet. Power hierarchies evolve toward greater trust.

Now, imagine a candidate campaigns for a seat in the US House of Representatives with one promise:

“I will vote the way the delegate network for my Congressional district tells me to vote and refer all political negotiations to them.”

Voter authentication is based on:

• FCC-mandated SHAKEN/STIR authentication of caller IDs that has been in effect since June of 2021.
• Phone numbers appearing in the Secretary of State voter registration records.

Another feature is “delegate money”: a demurrage currency system to incentivise participation. Philosophically speaking, politics and money are the two primary abstractions of government’s monopoly on force. Reforming politics alone is impractical. To quote the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty: “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” While there have been, and will continue to be, ideas held as passionately as they are divergent about how to wrangle the abstraction of force called “fiat money”, the delegate money system is a pragmatic degeneration—targeting political command and control hierarchies—of what the author has called “property money”. In the general form of “property money”, fiat money is backed by the value of enforced property rights in what might be called “civilization as a service”—a service provided by “those who place their flesh, blood and bone between chaos and civilization”. They are called “Sovereigns” in the terminology of “property money”. In the interim, delegate money pragmatically degenerates property money as follows:

• Treat those who verify their phone numbers in their voter registrations with their Secretary of State, and who then use those phone numbers to participate in the delegate network, as though they were placing their flesh, blood and bone between chaos and civilization. They are the recipients of demurrage fees, equally apportioned among them.
• The money supply is based on an estimate of the property value required to support all governmental personnel.
• The initial money supply is “minted” so as to make the delegate network go viral: incentivise early participation thereby creating a critical mass of participants to reach network effect tipping point.

This video walks through an example calculation of delegate money supply in the case of Iowa, utilizing the founding statistics of the 13 original States as a tenable ratio of representatives to constituents that may be restored to some extent by The Delegate Network’s voting and monetary system.

In the present context, the purpose of The Delegate Network is to address the persistently increasing gap in the existing political systems of the West, leading to the situation graphically depicted below.  Military theorist John Robb has recently compared this loss of legitimacy to the disappearance of an apex predator resulting in mesopredator release.  These “mesopredators” are the non-governmental organizations currently running rampant.