I'm off-topic, so apologies, but... Jim, you can't crowd-source policy-making. Policy should be made by experts, those who've studied an issue at depth and tried to understand the impact of possible approaches to it. The value of a republic, electing elites to govern, is that it avoids the dangers of simple-majority rule (see referendum mania in California). "Coalitions" of modestly- or ill-informed members of the public is not the answer, in fact it may make things worse (see Republican primaries now underway).
You *might* be able to help the national discourse if you just focused on economic issues, as there is somewhat more consensus there already, and powerful interests strongly counterbalance that consensus in the Congress for their own benefit. On Feb 14, 4:49 pm, Jim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > The Coalitions Project is pleased to announce to the Node community an > alpha release of Coalitions.US.Org athttp://alpha.coalitions.us.org. > > The key parts of the stack are node, express, mongoose and mongodb, but we > also utilize async, everyauth, monogoose-auth, nodemailer, redis, mocha, > zombie, jasmine-node and another dozen or so awesome contributions by the > node community. We're currently deployed on Heroku. > > Coalitions aims to be a social network for social change in the U.S. > > Our video manifesto is here:http://alpha.coalitions.us.org/manifesto > > The value of any social network comes from the people in the network. We're > still too new to offer much value. So we're looking for very early adopters > who will suspend disbelief and spend 10-20 minutes completing a fun issues > survey, from which we will build upon. As you complete the survey, you'll > see where you fit within a two-dimensional political landscape.You can get > a quick idea of what the survey is like by watching the screencast > here:http://alpha.coalitions.us.org/screencasts/issues > > Coalitions is meant for people currently living in United States. This > isn't American provincialism. It's simply recognition that political > dsyfunction in the U.S. is such a big problem that it requires its own > dedicated platform. > > You can sign intohttp://alpha.coalitions.us.orgwith your GitHub* > credentials. So what are you waiting for? > > Thanks, > > Jim Lloyd > Coalitions Project, Inc. > > * Or with Google, Twitter or Facebook. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
