Understanding the Delphi Method and How It is Used to Dupe the Citizen and Undermine the Power of the Local Government
It may not be necessary for an NGO to send anyone to your city or county to create compliance to Sustainable Development Policy. Not if your city or county has hired one or more city planners who have been exposed to the American Planning Association’s (APA) “Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook”.
The American Planning Association’s Guidebook was paid for by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies, using your tax dollars. This massive 1500 page compilation of boilerplate legislation and planning practices guides planners on ways to implement the principles of United Nations Agenda 21 in your local communities.
There are over 16,000 certified planners in the United States. The APA helps planners learn what some many consider a manipulative method of reaching consensus about community concerns. This method goes by a number of names including the Delphi Method, Consensus Planning, or Visioning.
A planner runs this process in such a way as to allow citizens to think that they are giving input into their communities; input that will help lead the community to an acceptable solution to a community problem. Whereas in reality the data the citizen is providing is minimized in such a way as to allow the pre-determined outcome that the Planners desired all along to be realized. In this way, citizens will be made to believe that green space, bicycle paths, and walking trails were the top concerns of the community because the data will have been manipulated by the planners to create the Sustainable Development desired outcome.
This explains why around the country, small towns and large, are adopting plans for their communities that have similar sounding names, like Vision 2020, and that are following very similar Sustainable Development plans.
This process makes a mockery of our representative government. Through the use of the Delphi Method only an illusion of a functional representative government exists. In reality decisions that should be reserved for the citizen are stolen by unelected city planners. This in turn destroys the power of our local representative government and instead places the power into the hands of the unelected City Planners.
This particular link
https://www.agenda21course.com/lesson-9-non-governmental-organizations-and-the-delphi-method/
used to be accessible from USA ip addresses. To get to it today you will have to use an overseas VPN!!!!!
Excellent,right there.!