Thank you for sharing this, Dave. Alternative democracy is well worth theorizing about as an intellectual exercise, but this and all other utopian visions stumble on the practical question: how do we get there from here? No one, no matter how visionary, has the power to change systems unilaterally, from the top down. So any sentence beginning with “we should…” begs the question: who do you mean by “we”? And how can we change the system if we first need to work within the premises of that system to gain the influence necessary to change it? And then we face the concerted opposition from everyone who benefits from the status quo…