Coherence Pillars

Disinvestment has broken the ways we gather together, but it's possible to make different choices—something we'll explore in more detail in an update expected ####.

Meta-Facebook has shredded global understanding despite the initial promise being sound. Now that it holds unparalleled attention across the globe, we must globalize Meta into a politically and commercially transparent "white pages" directory—one engineered to better connect people instead of advertisers. We'll ponder in more detail in an update expected ####.

Nuance has vanished from key areas, and frames of reference everywhere have become improperly polarized. A deliberate and strategic campaign must be undertaken to illuminate the way we all sit on various spectra, and virtually never at the extremes or as monoliths. We have some big ideas about how deeply this could be applied—things we'll elaborate on in an update expected ####.

Subsidies, trade policies, and lopsided lawmaking has scrambled our understanding of what things really cost. Simultaneously, we've seen executive compensation explode despite appearing to involve virtually no personal liability or accountability. We have ideas about how to tweak both for the public benefit and we'll get nerdy with it all in an update expected ####.

Nobody doubts there's something unbalanced about a system that allows individuals to accumulate more wealth than entire nation states, but because any law can be broken and bans don't work, we instead need to reframe extreme wealth as a personality disorder—truly anti-social. We've fever-dreamed a few ways this might happen in an update expected ####.

Any person still advocating for the electoral college cannot be taken seriously—it is fundamentally undemocratic, and rigorously proven to distort the will of voters. There is no modern reason we cannot adopt a simple majority system—something we'll rant about in more detail in an update expected ####.

TV and Radio stations sell advertising to every political party, so of course they want things to be frothy. Instead, we can allocate a fixed sum for the promotion of each candidate who may qualify, and then allow the campaigns to fight things out on the merits. We'll back up our fightin' words in an update expected ####.

A polarizing election can often overshadow some of the more moderate possibilities that might exist, and Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows voters to fix that. Plus, if winning outright isn't an option, *kind of* winning is the second-best thing. We'll rank the reasons in an update expected ####.

In one of the most consequential rulings of a generation, SCOTUS enabled the most predictable outcome imaginable by effectively silencing individual voters and giving free and full license to corporate donors. Repealing it is a non-negotiable step toward a livable future, something we'll bank on in an update expected ####.

Ideally we elect only qualified individuals, but voters may occasionally be misled or misjudge and there must be a fair system by which the indictment can be made, and if proven true the election repeated. We'll cast our vote in an update expected ####.

Looking at the last half-dozen SCOTUS appointments make it clear—the current arrangement is irredeemable, and it's long-past time for us to implement any of the totally reasonable reforms available. We'll argue the case in an update expected ####.

While the US Senate has played a critical historical role in the formation of the country, its continued existence is completely indefensible and undemocratic—something we're sure will freak some people out in an update we expect ####.

If we had a nickel for every time a wealthy person evaded accountability, we'd probably be able to finally fund Social Security—but as things are, it's on us shout for change. Shout we will, in an update expected ####.

In a representative democracy, citizens must be given levers by which they can influence the spending priorities of their government, and countless pilots and test cases have demonstrated the beneficial ways that Participatory Budgeting helps do that. We'll get into the numbers of it all in an update expected ####.

Health is the cornerstone of everything, and the difficulty of accessing it in the United States should be regarded as a literal crime against humanity—an indictment we'll try to resolve in an update expected ####.

Citizens are told from early on that their dollar is their vote, and that the marketplace will always reward the strongest competitor—but that's all now been proven a bit of hogwash. We'll suggest a few ways we could move closer to a true marketplace of ideas in an article we intend to form ####.

Closed and proprietary formats may be profitable, but they're also indefensible—especially in the public sphere or with public money. Instead, we must rigorously adopt standards that prioritize understanding over secrecy, and innovation over capture. We'll open up about it ourselves in an update expected ####.

Imagine an abstract financial object that you could pay into like any 401(k), but was specifically oriented at certain initiatives—for example, the Parks Fund, the Homes Fund, the Libraries fund—where the capital can be used for that direct benefit? People much smarter than us have already described all of this, and we'll quote many of them in an update expected ####.

Considering how long it's been evolving, it's understandable that lots of cobwebs have formed in the US tax code—what's less clear why every American needs to be asked, every year, if they own any part of a railroad. We plan to claim all the exemptions in an update expected ####.

This is the payoff, and the loudest bell to ring—we must invest hundreds of billions of dollars into society, both into the things we've let atrophy over time, and the things that have never before received the support they deserve. We'll put all our ambitions on the line in an update expected ####.