Why we need Demos:
What is a political issue you care deeply about, something which affects you or you know a lot about?
Have you got one in mind?
How much power do you really have to influence it?
How often are you even asked by those in power for your opinion?
With Demos, you can make use of an important tool in affecting such issues, by expressing yourself politically in as much detail as you like, quickly and easily, and connecting with others to make yourself heard.
Politicians would have the opportunity- and the need - to listen more closely to their constituents; because we'd know without a shadow of a doubt whether they were really doing what we wanted.
Good ideas and issues which right now don't see the light of day would be able to be shared and seen widely, free from any politician's or media narrative.
How it works:
Imagine logging onto a website called Demos. You see a wide variety of voting topics and questions, all expressed in straight-forward, no-nonsense language. With every click of the button you can cast a vote on an issue, having more of a say in how the country
is run in 10 minutes then you currently do in a year.
All of these questions would have been made by users like you. If you find that no-one has drafted a question you want to vote on, you can then draft it yourself.
Interested members of the site will then review it, and then be voted on by everyone.
I like to call it the 'Wikipedia of public opinion'; user generated, people orientated compiling of information- in this case, information about what we the people want.
What sets Demos apart?
Nothing else that I'm aware of has the scope of vision I've described; no-one else is talking about signing up people face-to-face to make sure it's one-person one-vote. It's what we need, and I'm going to do it.
It's also cleaner and simpler than many of the other democracy-enriching projects that I'm aware of, and would be more user-determined as well.
