Podcast intro, what do you got? My friend, this show is about how engaged our

listeners are. So we put to them a couple of weeks ago. Well, kind of, we

sort of hijacked a little bit of it.

Well, but still, we asked them what would they do to fix the republic?

Can we still be a republic?

What reforms do we need?

And we got a lot of responses, thoughtful. Sometimes people laid out a very considerable argument, provided evidence,

gave witness of their own anecdotes in this world about these issues and we got a range of interesting thoughts about what it would take to fix the Republican.

And our webmaster, this young extraordinary man, actually created a statistical pie chart for us, and if I'm reading it correctly,

the number one set of suggestions involved electoral reform, election reform.

That was almost 32% and then about 17 percent went to economics.

And then 18 percent went to legislative and executive reform and then smattering of this and that and so when we stop talking about how much

we love the national parks on this program and started talking about those issues, we

sort of went through a number of them and said, well, would that work?

And if it worked, would it fix the system?

In other words, it's one thing that I could think of 100 things we should do to reform America.

But are any of them meaningful enough to fix, to return us

to our status as a People's Republic? That's a harder question.

But the best thing about this is that we have listeners that are engaged and active and they're making suggestions and I think we need to promise that next week when we return to this we we devote our time to reading what they suggest because it's very interesting.

Here they are constitutional reforms, economic reform, education, electoral reform, federal versus state powers, the Tenth Amendment,

government employee salaries, immigration, quite small actually amongst Jefferson

now our listeners, journalism, our media, military,

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