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Partisan politics turn neighbors into enemies:
• Family dinners ruined by arguments
• Communities divided by signs
• Issues reduced to slogans
Citizen Assemblies bring Americans together to listen
Imagine politics that heals, not hurts
#DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
Partisan politics turn neighbors into enemies:
• Family dinners ruined by arguments
• Communities divided by signs
• Issues reduced to slogans
Citizen Assemblies bring Americans together to listen
Imagine politics that heals, not hurts
#DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
AssembleAmerica.org
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention
AssembleAmerica.org
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention
• Constitutional foundations weakened by corruption
• Institutional walls eroded by extremists
• Democratic roof leaking away our rights and freedom
• Constitutional foundations weakened by corruption
• Institutional walls eroded by extremists
• Democratic roof leaking away our rights and freedom
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
#CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention
From Ireland to Oregon, everyday people are solving problems politicians can't:
• Ireland's Assembly broke decades of constitutional deadlock, with recommendations on marriage equality and abortion passing national referendums with 62-66% support
From Ireland to Oregon, everyday people are solving problems politicians can't:
• Ireland's Assembly broke decades of constitutional deadlock, with recommendations on marriage equality and abortion passing national referendums with 62-66% support
• Congress: 80% millionaires. America: >5% millionaires.
• Members spend 70% of time fundraising instead of solving problems
• When donors and voters disagree on policy, donors win
Who's really in charge? (Hint: Not you)
• Congress: 80% millionaires. America: >5% millionaires.
• Members spend 70% of time fundraising instead of solving problems
• When donors and voters disagree on policy, donors win
Who's really in charge? (Hint: Not you)
For most of history, people knew this to be true. Athens used sortition to fill most offices. Venice used it for 500+ years.
Time to bring it back. Time for #DemocracybyAssembly
#DxA
For most of history, people knew this to be true. Athens used sortition to fill most offices. Venice used it for 500+ years.
Time to bring it back. Time for #DemocracybyAssembly
#DxA