Platformer

So we see now how the position-based parts of dynamic platforms may be derived. But what is to be done with these positions?

Just as a party platform pledges certain actions that derive from the party’s positions on various issues, and just as the party then relies on the commitment of its members to supporting those planned actions, so too should our system incorporate the notion of planned projects and actions. But due to the special aspects of how our model is constructed, we can offer a much more powerful kind of coordinated action than traditional political organization.

Consider, again, the virtual platforms derived from our banded constituencies. At any level of scope (that is, “tightness” of focus around the center of the constituency space), we can identify a unique platform—essentially, a “flash political party” (like the flash mobs of the early 2000s). Although the individuals contained within this grouping may differ in numerous respects, we know that they have a certain basis of commonality—namely, the platform that has been identified by selecting them from the given constituency space. Now, imagine repeating this process of platform identification, centered on different individuals. Each individual, having a unique constituency space, will also generate unique platforms. But the platforms can be compared with one another. They can be ordered by similarity. And it is here that the full power of all these concepts come together.

By finding similar platforms derived from different constituency spaces, we can identify coalitions. The total set of members of any given coalition may be very surprising—it may include individuals who would never imagine the degree of commonality that they share with others in the set. But share they do, and it is these unlikely alliances that now offer the possibility to achieve wholly unprecedented organizing results.