I was asked “well what about the senate?”

The simple answer is that chaging the form of our government might be a good idea, but it will take either a Constitutional Convention or Constitutional Ammendments. Neither is easy.

But we don’t need to do anything structural to get fair representation. Congress passed it’s own law setting the size of the House of Representatives so all we need to do is put pressure on them to change the law.

Imagine, in two years we could have a real representative democracy. And you could run for office – it will not be limited to either the rich or their proxies (it is very expensive to run for office under these rules!)

We need your help. This will only work if we are focused and single-minded.

If you have web design experience we need your help.

If you know how to draft legislation, we need your help.

If you have experience at the grassroots level, we need your help.

I would love to get a map on this site with every Representative’s district and recruit volunteers in each district to press for change. Make no mistake, congress will not give this up easily. They have had 100 years of power and security and we are demanding that they go back to being citizen legislators, not career politicians. Please log on to the blog and volunteer!

I listened for a while to the Occupy Brooklyn General Assembly meeting before I knew that this Occupy(fill-in-the-blank) movement needed us.

At the end of the meeting there were so many working groups dealing with things like people of color issues, housing, outreach, media, and on and on. It is not that these issues are not important, they are, but they are policy questions. It struck me that here was a democratic meeting of citizens trying to discuss policy – that is great. But, we already are supposed to have a place where this happens called the legislature, local, state and federal. THE ISSUE IS NOT A POLICY PROBLEM IS IS A DEMOCRACY PROBLEM.

It is very clear that this energy should not be wasted discussing policy. We should only be discussing principals. How do we want to structure the democracy in which we live so that we are heard on these important policy issues. If these occupiers would organize themselves into a single-issue voting block with one demand – representation (30,000:1) we would be unstoppable. Then we could debate policy in an effective way!

I am going to dedicate myself to getting this single message out but I need your help. Please join the blog and send this link everyone you know!

So there is a new declaration about what is needed by the “99%” of us not in power. This is all fine except that all of these movements (on the Left & Right) are mistaking their politics with the structural problem.

Most of the stuff in the 99% declaration is policy – and reasonable people in a democracy will always disagree about policy, so why are they confusing their issues with what they should really be asking for? The same is true for the tea party folks and libertarians and all of the other people complaining about policy problems. I love their energy and enthusiasm but I am frustrated by their solutions

The problem is not policy, it is STRUCTURAL.

We need only to agree on the structure we want to use to come to policy agreements. Let’s not confuse our own morality or issues with what a democracy should be. We are not going to agree on the issues but we can agree on how we will STUCTURE our system of comming to a compromise and living together. Right now there is no point talking about policy because we are stymied in congress by monied interests. There is a bottleneck of democracy in congress and we need to unblock it. 310,000,000 opinions get passed through 435 people – so who cares what the 310,000,000 think just buy off the 435!

This structural problem is out first priority. The we can argue forever about what to do about taxes, the environment, abortion, the scope of government etc…

NOW IS THE TIME FOR 30,000:1

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had 5,835 Oscar voters in 2007. That means more people vote for Best Picture than vote on whether or not we go to WAR — a lot more!

We support the people who are occupying Wall Street, and we think part of our mission should be to occupy Congress!

Think of an issue, anything you care about. We believe that if we had a robust democracy, your issue, along with so many others, including corporate corruption (which is what the Wall Street problem really is) would be solved with a strong legislative branch. One that is responsive to only their constituents!

30,000:1