Forum Post: Hijack alert! America needs to know your solutions

This is very simple to understand. It's common sense.

Mass media ridicules this movement for not having clear solutions. America wonders about this too. And this lack of clarity leaves the movement open to being hijacked later on -- if it's not already been hijacked, to serve as a way to relieve public anger and frustration while ultimately accomplishing very little.

Before people join, they want to know what they're signing up for. They want a firm commitment on proposed solutions. Are they peaceful and legal? Real they achieve real, lasting improvement -- or are they temporary smokescreens (small changes in laws that will likely be eroded over time)? Consider using sortition (selection by lottery) as a part of the process to choose representatives in government. It was used in the first democracy (Athenian democracy) as the best way to safeguard democracy against corruption.

Avoid the mistakes of past popular movements in countries around the world -- that got hijacked at the end by charismatic leaders with terrible solutions. This happened because people were encouraged to focus, complain, and angrily vent about problems; and there was very little calm discussion on solutions. Also, the stages of 1) finding solutions, 2) reaching consensus on them, and 3) implementing them requires real work. People drop away from that effort at each stage. It's much easier to complain forever.

Which are you doing? Moving forward or endlessly dwelling on the past? By focusing on solutions now, we prevent a future hijack of the movement.

Let's make a list of the agreed upon, major problems. Then let's move forward with proposing, discussing, reaching consensus on, and implementing real and lasting peaceful, legal solutions.

Don't get hijacked! Beware!