Everyone reading this knows something is rotten in the States of America.
Our representatives don't listen to their constituents anymore; they listen to their wealthy donors. This is because communications between politicians and constituents mainly go through expensive, corporate-run mass media.
The problem can be fixed, and here is a plan to do so:
Objective: To reform our democracy to be more like an ongoing conversation with everybody included. Approach: We should move citizen-politician discourse away from mainstream media and traditional forms, and towards the internet. Method: We should organize nonpartisan online discussion forums, one for each elective office, and invite our neighbors and political leaders to join us at these. Experiment: To determine if this method is useful we should try it at a competitive district, using this prototype forum as a template. Moving forward: If it works, we'll set up other forums in other districts. If it doesn't, we'll try something else using what we have learned.Follow me below the fold for more. Warning: much, much more.