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Also, as you note, the
Also, as you note, the scalability problems are nontrivial...that's my understanding of why something like They Work For You hasn't arisen (yet) in the US, or at least why it might not be as successful -- because UK MPs represent far smaller numbers of people than US legislators, and so even a fairly large number of people demanding they respond to a set of priorities may not faze them. But simply stating that there's a scalability problem doesn't give me confidence there's a way to address it...
--ivan (quixotic1.com/Genocide Intervention Network)