The third version of the TDG was written in 2009 and published as the main invention of my new website. I discarded the academic approach of 2004, which gave me the freedom to take this book in the direction I thought it should go. This third version was a lot better than the second, in my opinion.
While I could get visitors to the TDG home page of this website, very few went past the table of contents. I tried generating internet discussion about the need to eliminate political parties and election campaigns, but I resigned myself that the world really doesn’t want this discussion. In seven years, I think I got four positive responses for the TDG.
In 2012, I figured that maybe this website should join the modern internet age, not solely relying on website text for its message. I could see a need for an improved website layout, logo, videos, and an e-book. But I was not convinced that even these changes would help further the TDG idea. So I held off, putting my spare time, energy, and money into other inventions.
In 2016, American politics became a little more bewildering than usual—and maybe conditions had come to where a few people would be interested in hearing about the TDG. Not only have I made all those presentational changes I thought of in 2012, I also rewrote enough of the book to call it a fourth version. The 2017 version is better written than the 2009 version. But if this book goes somewhere this time, it will be mostly because of the new presentation and new political climate. We shall soon see!
Dave Volek
November, 2017
