Great question, Jim. Thanks for asking. I'll tell you frankly, when "big thinkers" like those guys say vague things like "organize" and "get involved," I get a little frustrated, because the public processes in our system aren't really set up for the civic minded among us. Below, I talked a bit about why school board meetings are so weird, and I think they're actually a very useful local level illustration of the problem. At school board meetings, the moment for public input is relegated to a tiny portion of any agenda, and in actuality, it functions as a high stakes moment for anxious and upset people to attempt to articulate an important concern and find that their concern is usually ignored by board members, who, because of whatever perceived or real constraints, don't feel they can respond directly. We're trying to upend those systems. We imagine a world where citizens and their elected officials talk through issues together in online forums and face to face. Why not? We're using tools that are centuries old when we could be using Civic Commons, Facebook or Twitter.