Local Government: Where Democracy Goes to Live | Ryan Coonerty | TEDxSantaCruz

This TEDxSantaCruz talk is part of 22 surrounding our theme of “the Art of Hope.” Defined as the anticipation of something desired happening, hope is ferocious, persistent, necessary; hope is a powerful force for invention, change, and social justice. To hope is to be human.
Our fifth TEDxSantaCruz event was held on December 7, 2019, at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, CA. www.tedxsantacruz.org/
Ryan Coonerty is Chair of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors and the two-time former Mayor of Santa Cruz. He is also an entrepreneur, author, and educator. He is currently the host of "An Honorable Profession" podcast and a lecturer on law and government at UC Santa Cruz. Previously, he cofounded NextSpace Coworking, co-authored of The Rise of the Naked Economy - How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace and wrote Etched in Stone - Enduring Words from our National Monuments. Ryan was selected by the Aspen Institute to be a Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership as one of "the nation’s most promising young elected officials.” Ryan graduated from Santa Cruz’s public schools and the University of Oregon. He received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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So many trolls in the comments 🤦‍♀️
Go to your city council meetings, get involved in some way to have our government work for us. Run for office yourself. DO something to correct what you feel is unjust.

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I read a book called “The Long Earth”. It’s a collaboration between Terry Pratchet and Stephen Baxter (sorry if I misspelled their names). It was pretty much about we discovered other uninhabited Earths that we’re very similar, just with no human influence, and some variations on the geology/wildlife. It had an interesting concept in it that seems strange to us: well obviously people immediately started going off and building communities with other people. It was pretty much a re-enactment of the colonial era with the pioneers coming to North and South America do build new places. Well the strange part is the fact that none of these communities had any form of government/law enforcement. They’d operate with someone presenting and idea to the people and the people would vote on it. No one was the main person in charge. If there was a crime, the community would decide what to do with them together. No currency, just “favours” as they were commonly called- if the baker gave the woods man a loaf of bread, the woods man would give a stack of wood. People would keep track of these favours, and there’d be long chains of favours owed (if the baker didn’t need a pile of wood, the woods man could do something for the fisher and the fisher would give the baker some fish, for example).
By the second book, one community elected a mayor, but they were mostly in charge of organizing events/presenting the ideas of others.
Interesting books, the smaller communities aren’t fond of the US government since they tax them even though they don’t need resources from the main Earth (same idea as England vs US during the revolution.

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Billionaires should pay for Flint, Michigan to have clean, safe water...

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Billionaire's become billionaire's on the backs of others. I mean this in a quite literal way as well. They are billionaire's because they refused to share the profit that everyone working for them has earned. They do not intrinsically work harder, they simply care less. Regardless, the fact remains that our economy was at it's strongest by far when the highest income brackets were taxed at over 70%.
We need to go back to this system, because all things considered, it is the most just and justifiable. Even for the ultra wealthy this is the best answer in the long run. If everyone else is poor, then they will no longer be able to steal our wealth anyway. The wealthy will have to suffer (relatively speaking) more as well as the rest of us.
P.S. Not meaning to imply you personally don't already realize all or some of that. But many do not, so I'm adding my thoughts as an addendum to yours, not an intentional criticism in any way. ^-^

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Listening to this guy just makes me want more unincorporated arras with less people like him.

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Is is now the current narrative

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It's a Republic.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Democracy in America has always been a lie, as well as freedom has. But our forefathers did at the least move us closer to both. But that was never any reason for us to not follow the example they set and endeavor to further better our own situations. It is un-American to simply do nothing to make changes for the better, even if we change some of their changes for the better good of everyone.
They made things better for *some of us*, and it is now our responsibility to try to make things better for *all of us.* By now we should all realize that we are all interconnected. We all breathe the same air, and drink the same water. If the fish are all contaminated with mercury, we all suffer, etc. This holds true for anything else in the world.

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@@aylbdrmadison1051 we are all made in the image of God and called to love our neighbor as our self. All the noise and politics are but a wedge attempting to separate these basic fundamental ideas.

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Local Government are same as any other, they all operate behind closed doors when they need to according to their own agenda. Maybe next life we'll all be more closer to oneness instead of separating ourselves in such insane ways. Until then let us all learn from our own insanities aka "ignorance."

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Yes that is most often the case. But that is a poor excuse and very counter productive to bash those for saying they are actually trying to change things. Whether they do or not may yet remain to be seen. But our alternative is to allow those who don't even claim to try to do the right thing run our governments. Just take a look at what that's done to our presidency and senate. Allowing outright crooks to run things is even worse than the crooks who are afraid to be outright criminals because it says that we are actually happy for them to F us all.

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This guy is a joke. Using a TedTalk to campaign! Come on TED.

[@trumpsupporter3485]

Universal income? No way. People need incentivised to contribute, not promote dependencies.

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universal income is generally intended to support the lower class and stimulate the economy it’s not supposed to be a livable income but it helps in areas where there’s limited job availability and weak class mobility (aka everywhere)

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Lost me at climate change.

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