I love what I see developing here. Thanks to every one of you for contributing to this effort!
I have an observation, a concern, and some suggestions:
My observation is that this “Policies for the People” platform has attracted an incredible amount of interest and contribution - in a very short period of time. This suggests to me that Americans are very much interested in participating in their democracy…in a very direct way. This is heartwarming. I’ve read so many astute and well-thought-out policy suggestions.
My concern is that as you/we gather so many thousands of policy suggestions, people will begin to feel overwhelmed and lose interest if there is no clear process to consolidate our efforts into cogent and persuasive proposals that generate tangible and measurable legislative outcomes.
Already there is a huge amount of data that needs to be organized and prioritized if we’re ever going to have any significant and positive impact within the legislative process of our democracy.
My first suggestion is to prioritize our efforts. If we could each select our “Top 10 Policy Priorities", and then have them collated with all other participants in a ranked-stack format, we would then have the beginning of an organized structure on which to concentrate our collective effort. We need a rudder of some sort to direct this endeavor into a realistic and effective operation. We could then develop several working groups to sensibly merge, consolidate, and focus our collaborative effort towards developing intelligent, comprehensive, and concise policy proposals that could then be forwarded to our Congressional representatives.
My second suggestion is to organize our discourse, such that we can discuss, develop, vote on, and lobby for those policies that are most likely to have the greatest impact on the priorities listed…which would presumably, as utilization of the platform grows, become more and more representative of the American population at large.
This is an amazing beginning. I think it’s awesome what y’all have done so far. Let’s take it to the next step.
As together we choose, together it will be!