Set the stage for how America can save its failed bi-partisan, election-centered political discourse

The solution is to supplement this polarizing discourse with issue-centered discourse that de-polarizes politics by making citizens and governments responsive and accountable to each other. So are ready to rumble? If so, center stage are transformative Civic Media formats, below, that we've developed over the years:

• Internet

• ChicagoWRKS.com (proposal, 2009)

• TV

• America's Choice (proposal, 2006)

• Chicago Fixit (proposal, 2017)

• Newspaper

• Full Story (proposal, 2014)

• Chicago Education Page (proposal, 1989)

• Chicago Sun-Times Guide to LSC Vote (publication, 1988)

• New Plan of Chicago (Chicago Tribune) (critique, 2013)

• Marshall High School Newspaper (publication, 1997)

• Radio

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Could This Be the Recent Past and Near Future of American Political Discourse?

(The aim of the second is to restore integrity and functionality to the first.)