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Aired Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Great Upwising and the New Common SenseHow to Establish Government By the People By Creating an Ecosystem for Civic Engagement An Interview with… Me!“We’re all in the same boat. The Titanic is sinking. And the lifeboat is the Love Boat.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs I notice how easy it is to get caught up in the drama of Trump vs. anti-Trump, and how important it is for us to hold a meta-conversation about politics, I have sometimes felt I have been talking to myself.Well, fair enough.This week I WILL be talking to myself. My interview is with me, as I look to glean what I have learned in nine months of interviewing solutionaries on Wiki Politiki Radio, and particularly my work with Richard Lang and Lupton Abshire to bring about a National Town Square as “freedom of assembly 3.0.”As a political scientist by training — and no, I never did get to actually dissect a politician in poly sci lab — I recognize three meta-principles of politics at play:1. Power corrupts, and abs