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A sampling of national issues

  • Increasing polarization, lack of listening, information silos, separate versions of "truth";
  • L-curve distribution of wealth and power;
  • Increasing corruption, special interests win over the public interest;
  • Undermining of public institutions, fake news, rage radio, foreign manipulation of elections, breakdown of the rule of law, loss of democracy as a value, etc.
  • Lawmakers in gridlock, incapable of handling difficult issues;
  • Declining trust in one another and institutions ... e.g. government, the courts, science;
  • Systemic racism, mysogeny, violence;
  • Impending destruction of the commons ... e.g. aquifers, forests, spirit of community; 
  • Branches of the economy are destructive ... e.g. our food system creates unhealthy products, destroys soils; promotes over-consumption;
  • .... (you name an issue that concerns you)​
All of these issues are symptoms of a deep systemic problem: ... Our national system is designed for competition. It assumes that we are all in-dependent in our "pursuit of happiness". And that "what's best for all" will arise through this competition. But since this structure was established we have become more inter-dependent. So this competition of "special interests" now undermines the "public interest". And ... here's the key ... there is no continuing "We the People" conversation, where We can face these issues creatively and collaboratively, where we dan co-determine the "public interest." 

There is a simple solution to all these issues!

The Wisdom Council Process can be used to facilitate "all the people" into one creative, collaborative conversation, where we face these difficult issues and reach near unity on what to do. And where "We the People", all-of-us-together, provide responsible leadership to elected leaders, the market, and the culture. This breakthrough approach is mostly proven to work. 

Originally, we thought that a U.S. Constitutional Amendment was needed to set this in motion, as described in the 2002 book "Society's Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People". ... But after 20 plus years of experiments and adoption by governments in Europe, we now know that the "magic sauce" for establishing a legitimate "We the People" lies in our ability to facilitate a particular kind of thinking, "choice-creating" throughout a whole system of people. And we know that, with enough resources, just a few of us could set this in motion. 

It is difficult to find any risk in this strategy. The Wisdom Council Process doesn't directly change our system or anything in it. It's about adding the missing element, that which is supposed to be in charge of a democracy, We the People. And to the extent we (a few of us) can facilitate this new whole-system "We the People" conversation, there is now a safe and fast way to ...
  1. Overcome the partisan split in America, spark a "birthing of shared truth" and build a new story of American rebirth;
  2. Achieve breakthrough progress on each of the impossible-seeming issues;
  3. Spark a new level of democracy where "We the People" take ongoing responsibility for our system and provide wise leadership to elected officials, corporate leaders and the population.

Rebirth of "We the People" 

This 9 min video is from 1/25/17, just after the installation of Donald J. Trump as President of the U.S. While this talk is given to the Democrats of Spokane WA, It could just as easily have been given to the Republicans. 

 The short (5 min) video below describes a national experiment in Germany using the Wisdom Council Process. German-speaking governments refer to it as the "Bürgerat" (i.e."Civic Council")

Additional resources

1) Video: ... Healing Polarization in Society (4min)
2) Handout ... "How to Fix America ... And Become a Real Democracy" 
3) Chart: Seven strategies to achieve the "Ideal of Democracy" in America
4) Short video on “How to reform democracy”
5) The book “Society’s Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People”