So now, having gone through this journey, and understanding that there are vested interests trying to keep these processes opaque, I’m furious and I’m like, “Where’s the bailout bill,” and hunting it down. I think what people experience when they read Give Me Liberty is that they see all the ways in which they’re being excluded and they’ve got this kind of founder’s fire in them now. They’re thinking, “What can I do in my life to push back at this, what are my resources?”
The question I want citizens to always ask themselves at this point is not just what’s in front of you keeping you from action but what are my resources to change things? ‘Cause we are so powerful when we take action together. So, you know, there are so many things
that needs to be changed. I called for a Deliberation Day, which is actually Bruce Ackerman’s idea. He’s a professor at Yale, but he’s had great results.
Instead of letting the pundits debate everything before an election... instead of leaving it to them, we should be assembling, and there’s an organization that can help us do this, in groups, big groups, city-wide, town-wide, village-wide, and it’s a structured deliberation process for two whole days. It has to be two days so that emergency workers, you know, are taking care of vital services and they get their chance. But the citizens debate the issues and can put follow-up questions to representatives of the candidates together and what he found is that leaders emerged, solutions emerged, people vote smarter, they take ownership of issues. That’s one example. I want mandatory voting. You know there’s mandatory tax-paying, for Lord’s sake. You know, everyone should vote. I want us to change the Constitution, which the Founders allowed us to do, so that we have a national referendum. There are twenty-four states that have referenda, meaning the people write the laws and people pass the laws. Europe has that...
Kall: Is that the Article 5 convention you’re talking about?
Wolf: Yes, I think it is. Yes.
Kall: Oh, we have got some readers who are very avid supporters of
that.
Klein: Really?
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