John Macgregor (democracy redesign)

rumble.com/v6fhwem-revolu… My recent book interview with Kim Iversen. Our topics: * War, inequality & govt corruption: insoluble in the current political framework * 'Third draft democracy': constitutional tools to decontaminate politics, decentralize information, cleanse the…

I would argue that four spheres—monopoly media, political money, skewed electoral machinery and civic alienation—are democracy’s present-day choke points.

Which aspect of our corrupted modern democracy most needs to be eliminated? (Reply below - thread incoming.)

Our politicians local, national & regional are all going to be corporate servants until we democratise our societies. Our other problems stem from that.

"Democracy is not a single thing. "It’s not ‘voting’; it’s not ‘free information’; it’s not ‘civic engagement’. "Because it’s a web with many threads, reform, too, must be a web. "Change that survives requires reforms that protect and strengthen each other."

1/3 Popular institutions are the key to making democracy a reality—institutions controlled directly by the people. Direct democracy. Deliberative democracy. Citizen boards to run elections…

"The divisions and depressions of the 21stCentury are not cosmic mysteries: they arose on the back of a democratic withering. "Our nations’ founding documents are rooted in a world no living person can remember.

What happened to X as a bastion of free speech? My engagement fell off a cliff early July. This (Grok tells me) was because the algo now promotes: (i) shorter more polarizing posts (ii) rightwing content--not leftwing (You read that right.) My averages per post,…

"Our constitutions don’t address the modern world because they know nothing of it. "A constitution’s growing ignorance of the present means that time can transmute it into a Pandora’s box, releasing ‘strife, care, pride, hatred and despair’ on society...

rumble.com/v6wajdc-intro-… My first Rumble video - a brief introduction to Third Draft Democracy.

"We are in such dire need of a big course correction in our country! "This book could have an impact similar to Tom Paine's 'Common Sense' back around the time of the Boston Tea Party." - Lauren Ayers on Substack

1/4 Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that ‘corruption is widespread throughout government in this country’. As Gallup CEO Jim Clifton emphasized, ‘Not incompetence, but corruption’. (One could add: Not occasional, but widespread.)

"The ‘COVID Recession’, the Global Financial Crisis that preceded it, and the Dotcom Bust before that, were named after their precipitating events. "But whilst our recurring economic crises may have diverse and unconnected triggers—the IT industry, New York banks, a virus—...

"Hundreds of books, articles and TED Talks on the state of democracy tell us where we are—A—in contrast to where we should be (B). "However, none suggest with any precision how to get from one to the other: C. "I thought it was time for a book about C."

"Democracy's ‘third draft’ revives the egalitarian character of humanity’s evolutionary past - via a suite of democratic tools that decontaminate politics, decentralize information, cleanse the electoral process, and raise ‘civic IQ’."

It took Grok 88 seconds to come up with this rather good definition of Third Draft Democracy: 'Third Draft Democracy' is a conceptual framework for reforming modern democratic systems, proposed by Australian author and journalist John Macgregor in his 2024 book The Mechanics of…

If your interests are... * Dismantling the deep state (MIC) * Clean, unrigged elections * Politics that isn't bought... ...we'll never get there via the present system, no matter who wins elections. You need millions of eyes on these problems, not just an elite few. And you…

On X tonight, I had my first discussion with a non-human (GROK). It began when someone complained that we can no longer trust the news. So I said: ME: If we decentralize ownership of news ('third draft democracy') & fund thousands of start-ups from a small tax on social media…

"The old anti-oligarchy parties have been purchased by oligarchs. "Electing a new guy won’t change much."

The JFK hit was a 'Rosetta Stone': lots of the hidden players flashed into the daylight briefly, allowing the observant to draw a rough picture of how the deep state worked. I wonder if Epstein won't prove to be another Rosetta Stone.