This is about how I came up with a way to fix democracy, to fix the main problems of American politics.

I’m writing this as a rebuttal to Joshua Tauberer’s blog in which he not only says that democracy can’t be fixed, he says:

If there was an idea that could ‘fix’ democracy, it would have been thought-up already.

You could have been one of the people that informed Gandhi that non-violent civil disobedience wouldn’t work. When he proposed it, they had no words for it. He committed to freeing India when it was a ludicrous, impossible idea.

Tens of thousands of people are working… Foundations and venture capitalists have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on making government and policy-making better, and many tens of millions of that just on use of technology.

It’s naive to thinking something isn’t solvable if it hasn’t been solved yet. And each one of us is different and has had a different path. So let’s look at me and mine:

What Happened that I found a way to Fix Democracy?

IQ-wise, apparently I’m in the top 3/1000. I have a math background in which I became adept at proofs. I’m trained as a problem-solver and computer scientist. I spent four years studying ego and attachment and achieving enlightenment.

Besides a 30-year career in computer science, I’ve had the equivalent of a full year of post-graduate study in applied context, the nature of assumptions, cultural myths, and possibility. I’ve had lots of exercises and homework involving looking at how these shape my thoughts, my personality, my strengths and weaknesses. I practiced ways of living freely, outside their limits.

In courses and with experienced experts I’ve stretched my notions of what’s possible for myself and my life. While about 2 million people have taken at least one of these courses, I estimate Iess than fifty thousand people have taken all these.

How the Idea to Fix Democracy Arose

It was in one of these courses that I saw my resignation about politics as something I accidentally picked up. While I had reasons for it, I saw that all the reasons were true only with the cultural context. So I gave up my resignation and began studying politics.

The basic idea arose after 6 months of inquiries probably no one else has done. After I came up with it, I didn’t believe it. I’ve taken it apart and put it together many times. I’ve shared it with many people, listened closely to their feedback and questions and answered them.

It’s not a magical solution. There will be challenges. I can’t do it alone, though I’ve done a lot of planning and design. And I’ve done some interesting marketing. There’ll be alliances with all sorts of groups and industries, the type of planning few startups seem to do.

The website is only part of the solution. The other part is the marketing, motivating people to come, rewarding people for participating, and creating new mythology to support it. I have rough designs of it, but it’ll take marketing professionals.

When I do the math, it looks reasonable that no one came up with this before. When I talked to many of the founders of other efforts in this space, I heard no one with a similar plan or vision, no one seemed to have done anything like the work I’ve done to get here.

I’ve heard many people say journey has been extraordinary, as a matter of fact, not as praise. While I’m bright, IQ wise, I have plenty of weaknesses. I’m pretty sociable and liked, but I live a bit as a recluse. I never developed much of a network, and that has slowed me down.

In the next article, I’ll tell you, from my perspective, why it’s reasonable that you and thousands of others didn’t think of this already, and why you find it hard to understand.