To all Americans,

I am exercising my freedoms under the first Amendment to organize our next Constitutional Convention. I ask that you join me so that together we can write the greatest story ever.

The Constitution was genius for its time, but the government it upholds can no longer meet the demands of a modern, digital society, and replacing it is absolutely necessary for our safety and happiness. Until we regain control of our government, the one that has been hijacked by soulless corporations and callous aristocrats, life for all of us just gets worse. The things upon which all our lives depend, the colossal environmental, economic, and political systems that affect all of us, are simultaneously failing; and they are all failing because our government is failing to regulate our civilization adequately.

Imagine our current government as an old home. In this house, cockroaches live in the walls and cupboards, mold grows unchecked in the bathrooms, the roof leaks with every storm, and it all rests on a cracked foundation. Everyone you love is living inside of this decaying home, one built centuries ago, one teetering on the verge of collapse. Unless you move to a new home, structural collapse and personal tragedy are inevitable. It is impossible to say which load bearing wall will fall first or which storm will blow the house down, but it is obvious that disaster is immanent. A house as rotten as ours cannot be repaired.

But that means we need a new home, and that means we need specialists of all kinds working together for extended periods of time around a single blueprint. We need a demolition crew, an architect, general contractors, electricians, plumbers, roofers, interior designers, foundation experts, and many other specialists who know exactly what to do within their niche of expertise. You cannot just hire a bunch of general contractors and expect to build a great home, you assemble a collection of specialists, each one tasked with a specific responsibility. We must build our government the same way we would build a home, by gathering different specialists, incorporating the preferences of the owners, finalizing a blueprint, and setting a timeline for construction.

I believe that the best of all possible options is to organize a Constitutional Convention, to organize the design of a new home for the American People. Unlike our previous Convention however, we want to broadcast and livestream the discussions of our delegates so that “We the People” criticize, comment, and cheer from the safety and comfort of our homes. Executing this play would generate an enormous amount of data regarding the ever-invoked “Will of the People”, allow our foremost experts to teach the American People their specific niche of expertise, and provide a unifying narrative for the nation as a whole. By combining executive direction, subject matter expertise, and public feedback, I believe we can design the best government, the best home, in the world. I believe that the livestreaming of our governmental reboot, the drawing together of epistemic expertise, digital technology, and popular feedback, has the potential to become the greatest democratic experiment in recorded history. That is what I want, and now that you’ve imagined it, I am betting that you want it too.

Because crucially, without an initiative of this magnitude, without fixing our government at a foundational level, there is no hope for us. The government is broken, it needs fixing, and this proposal is probably the best plan to really fix it you are going to ever see. We are down late in the fourth quarter and a hail mary is the only play that makes any sense. Extreme circumstances require proportional responses, and while the risks of replacing our government are enormous, so are the rewards of doing so successfully. To minimize this risk, this website goes on to explain why such a radical step is necessary and what our next government might look like. Metaphorically speaking, this website has a biting inspection report of our current home and a rough sketch of a blueprint for our next one. The plan is to have the specialists finalize this blueprint with direct input from the owners (the American People).

We live in an age defined by information and narratives, an era where stories and ideas can spread to billions in a matter of hours if they create enough emotion. I cannot imagine a more appealing (or controversial) narrative than an instantaneous, non-violent, digital, democratic, diplomatic revolution against a tyrannical, expired, corrupt, seemingly all-powerful government. And frankly, in the age of information, a great story is all that is needed to go viral. I believe that all this story needs to make this Convention inevitable is to reach a critical amount of public support.  

The dream is not to make these United States great again; the dream is to make our Union greater than ever. My sincere, unflinching, immensely attractive hope is that this dream becomes your own, and that you help it become the unifying story for our distressed, oppressed, suppressed nation.

Best wishes,
Nobody

“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine