Connections in the system

The connections between our users, our groups, our organizations, and all the various activities in our system, are realized technologically, on our platforms, through connection groups, and physically through human bridges, who are our official members, who are part of various connection groups.

Our liaison groups are present in all our activities, at every level, and make up an enormous mechanism that connects our entire system.

At the geographical, territorial, administrative and electoral levels, the liaison groups are international, continental, national, and local, based on decisions at the various levels.

Each larger area manages, controls, and authorizes smaller areas, based on very detailed implementing rules. These rules are not intended to impose anything, but to ensure that everything is conducted in an orderly, organized, and safe manner. These hierarchies based on size are necessary to achieve unity amidst diversity. Fair and equitable local autonomy is usually maintained, while respecting the rules, methodologies, and instructions agreed upon jointly.

Microgroups play a fundamental role because, by expanding rapidly, thanks to human bridges, they will create overlapping microgroups (especially in border areas), and therefore in the same area there may be several microgroups, allowing everyone to play a leading role.

While microgroups can overlap, medium-sized groups are composed of several neighboring or overlapping microgroups, well-defined geographically. These medium-sized groups, by merging, will create large groups, which, by merging, will create increasingly larger groups, up to street-block groups, which, by merging, will create neighborhood groups, which, in turn, by merging, will create city-wide groups.

All these unions and integrations will necessarily have to unite and integrate with our existing groups and organizations, at every level, including local ones, of all sizes, which will unite and integrate with our national, continental, and international groups and organizations.

For each initial or integrated group and organization, various hierarchies will be created and organized, with shared decisions and temporary management and control roles.

Only when all the various organizations at each level have been created will the selection, nomination of candidates, and election of the various types of users, at each level, be carried out on the basis of very detailed implementing rules.

After the nominations of all types of users, in each official organization, from the smallest (formerly micro-groups) to the largest (international), political representatives (internal and external) will be selected, nominated, and elected.

After the appointment of political representatives at each level, various political activities will be carried out in internal election campaign groups, created in conjunction with each official organization.

After the various election campaigns starting with our smaller official organizations ( formerly micro-groups), our closed online primary elections will be held, and with the subsequent local election campaigns, the corresponding closed online primary elections will be held, again from the smallest to the largest, according to very detailed implementing rules.

Based on the results of our closed online primary elections, our political representatives will participate in various external, real-world electoral campaigns as our candidates for various roles at all levels.

At first glance, it may seem like a very complicated, long, and detailed regulation and methodology, but we can assure you that it is fair, equitable, and meritocratic, and will allow us to propose the best candidates to best represent our political organization and our users/voters.

There is a detailed article explaining how our closed online primary elections will be conducted, available to all our official members, at this link:

https://free.directdemocracys.org/we/1-we-rules/primary-elections

To become our candidates for political representatives, in our internal electoral campaigns (from the smallest to the largest), and based on the results obtained in our closed online primaries (again from the smallest to the largest), you simply have to request to participate in the selections for our political representatives, which take place at various levels, in our official organizations (formerly micro-groups) and then at the various local levels.

To participate in the selection process for our official representatives, you must request and obtain a political representative profile, invisibly linked to your personal profile (which will remain completely anonymous and practically invisible).

To apply for a political representative profile, you must be an official member, in good standing with your volunteer activities and annual dues. This is one of the reasons why certain details, rules, methodologies, instructions, and rationale are available only to this type of user.

But why can only our official members request a political representative profile? Because only those who collectively own our entire system can, as owners, obtain other types of profiles, invisibly linked to their personal profile. The various types of profiles that can be requested by all our official members, who meet all the requirements (required number of points and time spent as an official member), are as follows: a system profile (for those who want to do business and invest with us), which can be completely anonymous; an official representative (which allows management of our entire system), which must contain the real name and surname (instead of the anonymous username), followed by the code or; or, alternatively, a political representative profile, which must contain the real name and surname (instead of the anonymous username), followed by the code pr. Representative profiles, both official and political, are public figures; Therefore, they must have their real first and last names, rather than usernames, to make them easily identifiable, first within our groups and internal activities at various levels, and then externally, based on the type of activity in which they participate. Those who manage our system collectively cannot engage in political representation, and vice versa, because this would create a conflict of interest and would accumulate too much power, which in our system is always evenly distributed among all our official members. Those who perform the important role of political representation, to obtain a profile with a PR code, must have renounced, for all their political representation activities, any management role within our system, and must perform political representation to the best of their ability in the various institutions. To obtain and activate a political profile, they must notify and recommend a replacement in all the various groups in which they were active, both as an official representative and as an official member, being able to perform only political representation activities. Obviously, at the end of your activities as a political representative, you will be able to have your political representative profile blocked, in order to reactivate and use your official representative profile (which is a partially public profile), and your personal official member profile (which can be completely anonymous and practically invisible), returning to the groups you were previously part of, and all the activities you were involved in.

In this regard, we answer some questions in the final section of this informative article.

Question 1. Are there any exceptions where an official member can use an official representative profile alongside a political representative profile? Answer 1. There are no exceptions for anyone, under any circumstances, for the simple reason that representative profiles are for public figures, with real names and surname (in their own language, as written on their ID). And one cannot be active until the other is blocked. In the case of a political representative, the official member's personal profile must also be blocked, and they will vote on all decisions, including primary elections, in voting groups, using their political representative profile.

Question 2. If voting is open for decisions, is it also open in closed online primaries? All voting (with very few exceptions for security reasons), throughout the entire DirectDemocracyS system, is and will always be open, reasoned, and with full accountability for all consequences of the vote. It must be open because everyone is free to express themselves and decide as they wish, and no one will ever be blocked or expelled for their decisions or votes. This also helps avoid disputes; if someone sees their vote in the voting group they're voting in, they can be sure it has been counted exactly as they decided, and implemented. In practice, they'll see that everything is in order, and this saves us time with potential disputes. It must be reasoned because it's right to explain to others the reasoning behind each individual decision, also to ensure fair discussion and evaluation of the various individual and group ideas. Accountability is necessary to prevent any potential boycott, as well as instinctive and insufficiently reasoned decisions. If a person is held accountable—individually, as a group, and as a whole system —they will surely think carefully before making a decision. This is not only a duty (assuming full responsibility for the consequences of their decisions), but also a huge advantage for everyone, and for the entire system, because we will be able to find the guilty and the innocent. In closed online primaries, the voting rules are identical, with the same methodologies, instructions, and motivations. We know it may seem strange to see a candidate voting for himself, but if he truly believes he is better than the other candidates, he will vote for himself, justifying his decision like everyone else, and like everyone else, taking full responsibility for the consequences of his vote.