The popular choice is not elected as president.

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.