I am initiating this website and these blogs as a place of communal discourse for sharing and hearing thoughts on Constituent Engagement and advancing the concept of SpectrumEngagement.
My specialty within political science is Constituent Engagement.
This has brought me to three primary premises to achieve SpecturmEngagement.
1. Constituent Engagement is three-directional within any delineated realm:
- Leaders engaging constituents,
- Constituents engaging leaders,
- Constituents engaging mutually.
2. There are three components of comprehensive Constituent Engagement:
- Maintaining a comprehensive Database of constituents within the designated realm,
- Delineation by demographics, geography, and additional factors,
- Modes of Relationship Formation.
3. SpectrumEngagement encompasses the constituents withing the full realm.
It is not “two sides,” as current language manipulates the conversation. This articulates an image of all people on two sides, divided by a gap in our society, or the “aisle” in the legislature.
4. Language Which Includes All The People in Building a Better Society.
The focus of this website and blog is finding our way to the vision of a society on the path to achieving a democracy which encompasses a pluralistic, inclusive democratic society.
I sense that in our era, we are supposed to see everyone on one of two sides. Each person on one side is expected to resent everyone who is not on “their” side. And they will be resented by everyone on the other side.
It is presumed that it is necessary that we each determine which is our side. Furthermore, we have been assigned a “label” associated with everyone on each side. Everyone is expected to make that choice, assuming that label, for the sake of contributing to and achieving personal success and national survival.
Please join in this discourse and share in shifting that “reality” to the articulation of a range of options in which everyone finds their place within the full spectrum of humanity and society. That spectrum includes the multiple ranges of identity and philosophy which are not segmented into given subsets and which do not exclude the choice to occupy the space “between the sides.”
The blogs will further the exploration of each of these four categories.