Suzette Brooks Masters
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all the stuff I mentioned earlier.
But I think the causes are change.
And how we paint a picture of the future that the public is going to feel confident is going to take them to a better place.
And I don't think we've been doing a good job with that.
Yeah, another really easy question.
In terms of whether I disagree with anything you've said, I would say...
that the system is broken because what politicians are delivering is not what people actually want.
I can't answer that.
I'm not a student of enough history to really pronounce that.
But I will say that right now, for sure, people do not feel like their elected representatives are actually representing them, for the most part.
And that creates a lot of space.
Whether you believe it's a kleptocracy, whether you believe it was always rigged, doomed to fail, the fact is today we are in a position where more and more people are feeling like the system is fundamentally broken.
So I think that creates an entree that has not really existed for a long time to imagine something different.
And
I think all of this focus on deliberative democracy goes far in the sense of creating new ways of people making collective decisions together that feel right.
But it doesn't actually tell you what policies you need to move forward.
Yeah.
And so I think what I've been increasingly thinking about is how you can blend the advantages of tech-enabled deliberative democracy with thinking about future generations and future impact and change.
thinking about what a more regenerative type of policy environment might look like, how you can secure that with new government roles.
So I do think we're at a place where some of these bigger ideas focused on wellness, on different definitions of what success looks like for a society that