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Our democracy – Opportunities
With numerous threats to our democracy evident, where might we apply our energies in the years ahead – to protect, restore, strengthen our democracy?
Please broaden the view!
Classmates have responded. Included now are a number of additional entries. Thank you. That surely is how we move forward.
When you send further entries, now, for this Opportunities page, the Challenges, and the Organizations pages, they will go up. David Allen, Concord MA, david@davidallen.org .
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OPPORTUNITIES
1 For our primary election system that tends to select extreme candidates:
Ranked choice voting – to give voice to a range of views, not a constrained choice of only one party or the other
2 To move beyond the electoral college:
Danielle Allen, political theorist and University Professor at Harvard, is midstream a project to ‘renovate demcracy‘. 
For us she offers a cornucopia of pointers, to apply our energies for democracy. Below, three of her topics currently showing on The Washington Post.
3 Her priority: To get right the size of the ‘People's house,‘ the House of Representatives. As these four articles progressively reveal.
4 Voter participation
Voting should be treated like jury duty
5 Local news
To replace the financial base for local news, we need experimentation to try out new models.
6 Social media
Social media has undermined our constitutional architecture
★ Lies – the foundational challenge