I did a search for “Fixing our Broken Democracy” on Google. The top results are stale. We already know them. They have good ideas, but no real path to get them implemented.
#1 – A 36-minute YouTube video from February, 2015 called Fixing Our Broken Democracy by Paul Lauenstein. It’s about Move to Amend, a constitutional amendment saying money is not speech and corporations are not people.
#2 – The search phrase isn’t even on this page on the site of the Communication Workers of America. The page is about the 1% silencing their voices and the link between rights at work and political rights.
#3 – A June, 2014 Huffington post article titled: How to Fix our Broken Democracy. It discusses some important concepts in the history of politics, and says we need to balance them, but doesn’t offer a solution.
#4 – A book called: Fixing our broken democracy: The case for ‘Total Representation’. It proposes a way to give losing votes in an election some weight, and is focused on the UK. It’s an important concept. But implementing it will probably first require fixing democracy.
#5 – A 2009 paper by an engineer at Columbia University. It’s about money in politics, fraud, plurality voting and a bit more. It’s nicely written, but goes along the lines of the usual answers.
#6 – An article on BillMoyers.com: Five bills to help fix our broken democracy – They could help a bit, but they’d first need help getting passed.
#7 – The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU has their page: Is Democracy Broken. It has similar ideas about elections and voting.
#8 – An article on Medium by John Lisney advises citizenship education, more hands-on issues and events (vague), and re-thinking elections. This last intrigued me. But he quickly concludes that elections are all that is possible, so we should get more young people to vote.
#9 – A pointer to a now-finished workshop on fixing democracy. It seems to have been about money in elections and corporate personhood.
#10 – An European idea- get more young people to vote.
#11 – The Green Party on the topic, with a host of the usual ideas, plus advocating changes to help third parties.
#12 – An article about the UK supporting instant-runoff elections.
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