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in-box 9 months ago
Global temperatures WILL rise, they WILL also fall at some point, then either fall a little more or go up again. The planet has been doing this for millions of years.

Not only is warming less immediately problematic than cooling, mass human death is more likely to come from another super volcano eruption, an object hitting the planet, or nuclear war.
in-box 9 months ago
The general concept is interesting. I think the volume of suggestions for citizen discussion alternatives here show at least some people are eager for a "citizen forum", but most of the suggestions are a bit grandiose.
in-box 9 months ago
"Political correctness" hardly needs a commission. It already permeates the national dialogue.
in-box 9 months ago
lol, I always wanted our government to have an "office of leaning from the past".

They already try to do this, but it would be nice if officials had a pool of professional historians that could research a question put on their desk and return an outline of past results.
in-box 9 months ago
I like the spirit of what you are saying but it's just not a simple problem. Politicians have to raise money to run campaigns for local offices all over the country, you cant hand money to everyone who says their a politician.

Even if you just do public funding for Presidential elections the candidates will by that time already have many "cash alliances".
in-box 9 months ago
Yea, have big elections on weekends, it wont effect the economy that way.
in-box 9 months ago
Disengaging the ways money influences how people end up a representative, and how it could effect what they do after elected, is possibly the most important thing we could do.

You don't get Thomas Jefferson by putting a dollar bill on a string and dragging it through a trailer park.
in-box 9 months ago
It's "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy", not "universe".

The most abundant fake participants we have by far are voters.
Our dominating two party system is so polarizing it causes people to believe they would never go to the other side so they no longer have to really learn what is going on to vote,
they can just tick off "R's" and "D's" by the millions.

If you had even just three strong parties the ideological herding would be greatly impacted.
in-box 9 months ago
"Ad hoc, randomly selected, well-informed"

So it's random before you start filtering people, or you screen for acceptable people then choose some randomly?