When I started PlainSite (http://ww.plainsite.org http://ww.plainsite.org), my friends and I talked about how cool it would be--given the country's current stat

When I started PlainSite (http://ww.plainsite.org http://ww.plainsite.org), my friends and I talked about how cool it would be--given the country's current state of affairs where money trumps all else--to allow people to donate small amounts toward a specific cause, and then allocate funding to politicians based on their willingness to forward the cause, as a kind of uber-lobbyist responsive to the people. Unfortunately, that would constitute money transmission. So I kept working on the parts of PlainSite that didn't involve that. But maybe one day when the money transmission situation gets resolved (and it's been 593 or so days of waiting so far on one federal judge), that will be possible. Generally, it's worth noting that the problems in American politics are mostly not technological in nature. They're a lot deeper, and this is precisely the kind of argument where Evgeny Morozov is correct: technology cannot solve all problems. It still can solve some, but at the end of the day, the simple fact is that we have extremists in Congress running the country.