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Originally Posted by flstf
You have some good ideas but I think it will be up to us voters to shake things up as well as or instead of some of the reforms you mention.
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Unfortunately, I don't see any practical measures of forcing people to become active. Practical measures are what gov't does best (if it does anything well) - create a law to enforce a particular reaction within the populace. You want people to pay attention? Create an environment where paying attention is nearly a requirement for participation.
I do see a high likelyhood of a paradigm shift based on the fundamentals of what I outlined above. And I see this as probable based on recent events. Look at the campaign finance reforms that passed a few years ago. They were hardly significant enough - yet look at the significant result: massive influx of 527s during the last election and their methods of affecting political discussion of that election. And those reforms were very minor in comparison to the fundamentals of what I outlined.
Change the provided methods of interaction and people will, by necessity, have to change their methods of interacting.
You can't wait for everyone to wake up - you have to set the alarm clock.