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We Always Build On The Past; The Past Always Tries To Stop Us.

But, Like All Metaphoric Wars, The Copyright Wars Are Not Actual Conflicts Of Survival. Or At Least, They Are Not Conflicts For Survival Of A People Or A Society, Even If They Are Wars Of Survival For Certain Businesses Or, More Accurately, Business Models. Thus We Must Keep I Mind The Other Values Or Objectives That Might Also Be Affected By This War. We Must Make Sure This War Doesn't Cost More Than It Is Worth. We Must Be Sure It Is Winnable, Or Winnable At A Price We're Willing To Pay.

A World Where Congressmen Spend 30 To 70 Percent Of Their Time Raising Money From A Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of The 1% Is A World Where That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Has Enormous Power. And It's That Inequality In Political Power That Enables This Corrupted System To Happen.

I Find Focusing Clearly On The Problem Is The First Step To Seeing A Solution. The Problem Is (a) The Insane Amount Of Time Spent Raising Money From (b) A Freakishly Tiny Proportion Of America. Basically .05% Are The "relevant Funders" Of Campaigns, Meaning Candidates Can't Help But Be Overly Sensitive To The Views Of That Tiny Fraction Relative To The Rest Of Us. If That's The Problem, Then The Solution Is To Spread The Funders Out: To Increase The Range Of Us Who Are The Relevant Funders Of Elections, Through Schemes Like Vouchers Or Coupons Given To Every Voter.

I'm All For Experimenting With Sortition - Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens. But I Don't Favor Direct Democracy. We're Busy. We Have Lives. There Is Reddit. Who Has Time To Work Out The Right Answer To The Thousand Policy Choices A Gov't Must Make All The Time?