I think you'll find that I'm actually influenced not only by modern events but a lot of what I've read from very intelligent people of decades gone by. Such influences include Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Picasso and Mark Twain. I'm pretty sure all of these people are well capable of thinking for themselves. I have read numerous literary works which has helped formulate my viewpoint. I do not believe in the failings of an ideology but the failings of humans in accepting that a different outlook towards life through education can actually lead to an ideology working. Socialism has been let down by humans.
The people were the flaws, not the ideology. To me, this does not indicate that there is a problem with the ideology itself but with us. However, so many people refuse to criticise the human race or accept our faults and our self centric outlook as a species and therefore blame the ideology, of course which cannot fight back. Most humans today see things in the way hunter gatherers did and thats fending for themselves rather than the societal collective. To achieve true socialism you need people's outlook to change so they value the group rather than the individual.
My political beliefs are all laid out and I know fully what I stand for because having studied the work of many of those before me I know now what I believe to be the correct path.
1. I want the political system revolutionised
2. I want devolution to regions
3. I want socialist devolved regions
4. I want money to be distributed more evenly within those democratically devolved socialist regions
5. I want agreements between regions to be created to avoid civil wars between regions
Why? I'll answer each above with the corresponding number below.
1. I believe more local government will allow people to have more control on issues that matter to them, to have a more in touch political class that works on a local level building trust and to ensure that political projects are community focused.
2. Why devolution? People want to see results in their own area and people want money they make to go into improving their lives. They also want more say in this. Of course, certain regions within the UK now make a net loss and are propped up so the exact split of regions would need to be cost effective with investment being put in the right places to make self sustaining regions
3/4. I want them to be socialist with money in these regions being distributed more fairly but the rich in these regions would still have a high quality of life because money would be going back into the local community to improve roads, to improve schools, to improve everything. These people would actually be the heroes of their local community as the money they make would actually keep the community alive.
5. This agreement is necessary to avoid situations arising whereby one area is doing better than another and another area wants to by force try and take that region. This is always a problem with devolution because regions are smaller and often less powerful. There would be a written agreement all regions sign up to much like the international agreement currently in place that states any attacking region becomes a national threat. All other regions would then be against that region. What region in the UK is going to make the first move when it has the rest of the UK to deal with?
Please don't say I've not done research or thought this through. Of course this isn't the entire thing or I'd be here all night but I have thought about it and done loads of research and I agree with people like Einstein who I believe is spot on. Only though education will we move from the self focus to a collective outlook and overcome that psychological barrier.
Far too many people in the UK currently only think about how much tax they're paying and how they're getting done over. We need to change that so people think 'my money is being spent on the local people, the roads, its doing good, I'm improving peoples lives' and they need to feel that that is a massive thing because it is. When people are being fed because of your taxes its great. When people are being clothed and sheltered because of your taxes its great. You should take pride in that, not see it as a slight on your pay cheque.
Humans have many faults. Do not blame ideologies for them. That's just the cowards way out. Self reflection is needed and we as a human race need to do it a lot if we're ever to continue advancing.
Thanks. I suggest you read the works or listen to the works of these great people as it'll open your mind.