My interest here is to try to get the Platform organized into a somewhat more logical order. It isn't necessary that my particular scheme is agreed to, but I offer it here and expect some others to join in to add whatever else is needed or even to re-order the scheme as appropriate.
I see on the "Collaboration Political Platform" page a scheme which still needs some clarification or re-ordering. This particular page is the one I take as the reference page for organizing the Platform, and so I suggest taking it as the starting point.
Anyone wanting to examine the Platform or do edits to it should click to this page in order to get started.
There are (or were) currently two main sections of the Platform laid out there -- the "Domestic Policy" section and the "Global Policy" section.
By contrast, the very top section of this page does not appear to be an official part of the Platform per se. Rather, it is a listing of general introductory remarks about the Party and the Platform.
The Platform per se needs a third section, which I am adding. This will be a basic Introduction. I am calling it "Prologue" but it doesn't matter what the title is. If someone wants to change the title to "Introduction" or something else, they are welcome to do so. Currently it contains the "strategy and philosophy" statement at the top of the page.
I think probably we all agree that some introductory statement is in order, prior to the 2 other main policy sections.
Thus, the outline of the Party Platform is:
Part I -- Prologue (introduction)
Part 2 -- Domestic Policy (list of domestic issue statements)
Part 3 -- Global Policy (list of global issue statements)
This outline makes the least needed changes in the current (or earlier) version, which had no clearly-defined introductory section, though the current "Prologue" is taken from the first introductory paragraph at the top of the earlier page. So the Platform now officially begins with the new Prologue section (on the "Collaboration Political Platform" page), while the items listed above that point are not part of the Platform per se.
Perhaps the outline should be more complicated than this or needs still other sections or modifications. But for now I suggest this as the framework or starting point.
It is important to emphasize the dynamic nature of the policy sections and to not take these issue statements as a final absolute creed handed down and revered for all time. Rather, it is Part 1, the introduction, which is to have the tone of finality and permanence to it, as a statement of Principles which give the foundation for the existence of the Party.
We need to attract members with a strong "Prologue" which will explain the need for the issue statements in Parts 2 and 3 but give complete encouragement to any skepticism toward the issue positions and invitation to join the process of dealing with specific issues. Thus, new members may join the process of shaping the issue positions in the future and also introducing new issues into the Platform which they think should be included.
Freetrader / L D Garland