đ§Ep16: "The Two-Party System is Failing Us" with Benjamin Life
đ§Ep16: "The Two-Party System is Failing Us" with Benjamin Life
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Episode #16: âThe Two-Party System is Failing Usâ with Benjamin Life
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In this inspirational episode, Duncan welcomes Benjamin Life to the show, where they discuss why our two-party system doesnât work. Our political parties arenât going to provide us with solutions, and our current system may well crumble. Right now, weâve got a ârearranging the deckchairs on the Titanicâ vibe going on.Â
Benjamin talks about the exciting possibilities of community currencies and blockchain. Our global currencies are inherently flawed and cause many of our problems. Discover why you matter in this episode, and why itâs important for everyone to know that.Â
Duncan and Benjamin talk about the danger of âotheringâ people and how that dynamic threatens our future. How can we harness the tension between left and right to evolve and avoid everything collapsing? Listen now to find out.
Join Duncan and Benjamin at Independent National Convention in Austin, TX: October 29-30
Highlights in this episode:
Duncan and Benjamin discuss why the two-party system will never provide us with solutions.
Learn about the upcoming Independent National Convention
Find out why Benjamin thinks electing politicians to represent millions of people is absurd.
Discover how we can jumpstart evolution.
Learn about harnessing the tension between left and rightÂ
Understand the importance of getting our core principles right.
Benjamin explains how we need to relearn the skills of being in community with each other.
Uncover why itâs important to know that you matter.
Duncan illustrates why we need to be responsible for the solution. Â
Learn why we need to get to the root of the symptoms.
When we're in an individual perspective, we can create a story where I'm the good guy and someone else is a bad guy.
And when we can look at how systems operate, we can see that these are just actors who are on kind of predefined trails of what's possible. And there's some variation of what they can choose, but the structure of the system is actually what constrains what those people can ultimately do.
So it's not the banker or the ceo, maybe they have had to dissociate from parts of their humanity to play that role, but in some ways they're as much the victim as they are the perpetrator. And so when we kind of pop out of that us-and-them frame, and we look at the Democrat, Republican parties and the way that money and power work in our current system, it's actually no surprise that the Democrat and Republican party are incapable of solutions because the way that they got to power in the first place was through the donations of the large corporations that themselves had to consolidate power through extractive means that took advantage of people and then reinforce that advantage through their emphasis in the political system.
And so the Republican and Democrat parties, as far as I see them, are basically like the executors of this broken economic system that we have. They're just the ones keeping the lights on and passing the bills that ensure that system remains intact. And so the solutions, I don't feel are actually ever going to come from those two parties because they have no incentive to do anything other than what they're doing.
Cuz they're the only game in town. And every four years they point the finger at the other guy and they say, âThat's why this is broken and wrong!â with most people not realizing that it's actually the entrenchment of the two against each other that keeps the whole thing intact. And so at some point, we're gonna need to look for solutions outside of that system.
About this weekâs guest:
Benjamin Life is an integral political organizer and civic innovator. He is an organizer of the upcoming Independent National Convention (Oct 29-30, 2022) and host of RISE: The United Independent Podcast. He considers himself an evolutionary alchemist, and heâs always looking for latent potential and synergy throughout the world. Benjamin believes we can develop and evolve through visionary leadership, relational healing, strategic consulting, and storytelling. Not only this, but he is also a friend and special ally of the Omni-Win Project.
Connect with Benjamin
Website: Benjaminlife.one
Email: synergy@benjaminlife.one
Here are some resources mentioned in the show:
Independent National Convention: https://www.inc22.us/event?affiliate_id=3951421Â
Rise - United Independent Podcast:Â
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