Changing the Conversation to the Four Foundational Needs:
1. Take back our government from corporations and the ultra-wealthy
2. Redirect the nation’s wealth to all its people
3. Develop AI-forward socioeconomic policy and AI transparency
4. Replace global conflict with cooperation through diplomacy
Get Your Media on Your Side. This is the number one priority: Changing the national conversation from everything we don’t like about government to how to set priorities and go about fixing it. Ask radio and TV hosts, podcasters, and writers to start adding a lot more content about how all of us can participate in the democratic process, even if we don’t have much extra time. Ask for interviews with experts on the four foundational topics above, such as how AI and other sources of surplus productivity can be used to replace income tax as jobs are lost. Ask for interviews with great candidates, with strategists and policy experts who are willing to join together to build consensus for the top-priority actions and bills we need. Ask them to promote great websites like GovTrack.us.
Be The New Media. If you have a platform or connections on social, use your skills to change the conversation. Promote Universal Employment Opportunities alongside the already-normalized idea of Universal Basic Income. Interview local candidates, track good and bad bills in state and federal legislatures, teach people how to pressure their reps, and promote priority legislation that will change things for the better. You could even start a group focused on finding a good candidate to run against an incumbent who doesn’t represent what matters to you, or a group focused on ending gerrymandering in your state.
Use your network and turn the conversation to solutions. (See Where to start and How to Start for ideas and links to more info.)
Use your network to support a challenger (or run for office yourself!). Don’t accept unresponsive representation! Check out Contest Every Race. This is a Democratic effort, but most important is that the candidates chosen to run should support the pillars of rebuilding democracy for the modern age—including term limits for Congress!!
Talk about economics, which drives politics. Economics may sound boring, but to understand politics, you have to understand economics. Professor Richard Wolff is the least-boring economist you’ll ever hear, and he is fearless in speaking truth about the excesses of unrestrained capitalism and what politicians are really up to when it comes to the economy. On April 24, 2025, he gave an excellent interview on the Deep Focus podcast explaining the real reasons for Trump’s baffling tariffs and the bizarre activities of DOGE, which are definitely not leading to government efficiency. Someone like Dr. Wolff who deeply understands their subject and can explain it to others is invaluable to the public discussion.