#HMP is the rule. Not the organisation.
Human Machine Party is the name of a public protocol and affiliation. It does not need to be a conventional political party, field candidates, form a parliamentary group or become a settled organisation before someone can adopt its rule.
You do not have to join a new party.
An elected representative can publicly become #HMP-affiliated while retaining their existing political identity, programme and affiliations, subject to the law and rules that apply to them.
Outside the HMP rule, they remain free to vote according to their own judgement, conscience, programme or party position.
“I follow the #HMP protocol. When its conditions are met, I will vote with the people I represent. Otherwise, I retain my normal freedom to vote.”Anyone may make this commitment. Different representatives may disagree about almost everything else.
A representative carries the result.
For a clearly defined public question within the representative's mandate, a two-thirds supermajority creates the HMP instruction. The representative's personal preference, party position or wider programme does not replace that instruction.
Where a clearly defined option reaches at least two thirds of the relevant democratic decision, a #HMP-affiliated representative carries that option in the institution they were elected to.
If that threshold is not reached, HMP's single rule does not manufacture a mandate that is not there.
Two thirds
For HMP, a supermajority means at least 66⅔%.
Question by question
One answer does not automatically determine a citizen's position on unrelated questions.
No hidden programme
Founder views and associated projects remain distinct from HMP's sole electoral commitment.
As much detail as the decision can bear.
HMP treats unnecessarily bundled choices as a loss of democratic resolution. Where components can sensibly be decided independently, they can be exposed as separate questions rather than forcing an all-or-nothing package.
A supermajority is the point at which the representative has a binding HMP instruction. The site deliberately does not prescribe whether the underlying decision was public or secret, continuous or periodic, online or offline.
The result only means something if people can form a judgement.
HMP distinguishes formal permission from practical democratic agency. A meaningful democratic instruction presupposes that citizens can encounter ideas, examine evidence, associate with others, speak, publish, challenge claims and revise their views.
HMP does not prescribe which institutions, media, technologies or cultural norms must provide that agency.
Journalism, public archives, social systems, AI tools, civic organisations and future mechanisms may all be part of the environment. Which arrangements are preferred remains a democratic question rather than an additional HMP manifesto commitment.
The machinery of democracy is not smuggled into the manifesto.
HMP fixes the representative rule and deliberately leaves implementation questions open to democratic determination. Different citizens can therefore support the HMP procedure while disagreeing strongly about the machinery around it.