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YTP Philosophy
The YTP Program:
YTP is a training program for citizens of democratic republics. Since citizens are the base of power in democratic forms of government, their performance is critical to its long-term success. The Founding Founders of the United States are the authors of the most successful modern republic. We have researched and been faithful to their concepts while also looking at modern examples and methods in designing our program. It is multi-level, interdisciplinary and written in plain English for the average citizen. It shows people the principles and ideals of a democratic republic and trains them to accomplish the duties of its highest office, the citizen.
This work has four unique aspects not found in any democratic system to date. They are designed to break the failure cycle common to all democracies/republics thus far in history.
This work has four unique aspects not found in any democratic system to date. They are designed to break the failure cycle common to all democracies/republics thus far in history.
The aspects are:
1. That the process of democratic action and decision-making is as important as the end result.
2. That democracy is as much concerned with human nature as it is with the government. Thus, the continuing improvement of the human nature of its constituents through free choice should be a major objective of every form of a democratic system.
3. That the most important thing each citizen should know how to do is to carry out their most critical responsibility of citizenship — the election of people of capability and good character to represent them.
4. That citizenship is a job and citizens should have a minimum standard, with training available to help them meet it.
This training should include:
a. The Ideas and Ideals of Democracyb. The Way a Particular Form of Democracy Worksc. The Rights and Responsibilities of the Citizens
Of Note:
On May 23, 1857, in a letter to an American friend, Lord Thomas Macaulay wrote:A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest democratic nations has been 200 years.
The average age of the world's greatest democratic nations has been 200 years.
Each has been through the following sequence:
- From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
- From Faith to Great Courage
- From Courage to Liberty
- From Liberty to Abundance
- From Abundance to Complacency
- From Complacency to Selfishness
- From Selfishness to Apathy
- From Apathy to Dependency
- From Dependency Back Again Into Bondage
HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF RIGHT NOW! YTP WILL HELP YOU ESCAPE THIS FATE!
THE REALITY
"...Popular sovereignty entails not only rights, but responsibilities as well: if we are masters of our own society, then it is up to us to make it work. During most of our history we have looked upwards-first to the crown and then the state — as if to a benign parent, ready to scold us when we have been naughty but also obliged to look after us, ‘from cradle to grave.’ That needs to change. We have to see that habit for what it is — a feudal leftover, a relic from the time when those at the bottom looked to their masters for succor. Even the cherished welfare state has its roots in the old class system, in which a permanent elite felt obliged to care for a permanent proletariat. The paternalists and socialists who built it were (and are) people of the noblest intentions, but their creation turned too many of us into passive recipients — as grateful for a state handout as (royal) subjects on a Maundy Thursday, bowing their heads to receive a purse from a kindly king. We need to make the move from passive to active, from subject to citizen — from political infancy to adulthood."
- Jonathon Freedland
Bring Home the Revolution
THE IDEAL
"Citizenship is still the American ideal; there is an army of actualities opposed to that ideal; but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal."
- G. K. Chesterton
THE GOAL
"Chapters in every community, committees to study and present in simple terms the laws under consideration, including court decisions, and examine the candidacy and fitness of all aspirants for public office to make sure they would advocate and protect the fundamental principles of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It overcomes party politics, special interests, and educates voters."
- George Washington