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Aired Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 5:00 PM EST National Town Square — A New National Institution to Represent “Us” and “We-Distribute” Political Power A Conversation With Richard Lang, Author of Virtual Country “We don’t need a revolution to overthrow the system. We need an evolution to help us overgrow it.” — Swami Beyondananda If you’ve had the sense that the will of the ordinary citizen in America has little or no impact on what legislation actually gets passed — you’re right. A study conducted by Princeton University in 2014 concluded: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.In other words, a huge majority of American citizens can support a policy like, for example, Net Neutrality — but if this policy flies in the face of what the most influential corporations want … well, we’ve seen what’s happened to Net Neutrality in recent months. And, if the overwhelming majority of Americans OPPOSE a policy — like the w