If you’ve read my book, The Happiest Corruption, Sleaze, Lies, & Suicide in a California Beach Town, or signed up for my online course, Double Dias: Adventures in Local Government, you’ll have picked up a message that runs through them, and through many of the links I’ve posted to books and Ted Talks. It takes a village to save a village. It takes diverse groups of people using their particular skills and abilities to be our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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- A public that has had enough and has the courage and generates enough people to stand and fight.
- A public willing to set aside gender, political, race, religious, and party divisions to fight together for honest representation.
- Engagement of outside legal, judicial, spiritual, and enforcement authorities.
- Engagement of the press and media on a state and national level.
- Engagement of political representatives up the line at the state and national level.
- Mobilization of individual groups and factions working together with a common goal—to replace the corruption with good government.