Richard Lang

Richard is Founding CEO of Democrasoft, developer of online voting and collaboration tools. He is also the author of Virtual Country: Strategy for 21st Century Democracy. You can reach Richard Lang at: richard@AdvisoryVote.US

Stop Fighting for Me. Start Working for Me

If you think about it, fighting for someone or something is predicated upon there already being a fight in progress, one in which to take sides. And that is one of the underlying problems in our current political environment. Our leaders, more often than not, become leaders by convincing us that the

By Richard Lang

/ July 19, 2023

Stop Fighting for Me. Start Working for Me

1,000 People Are Not 'Most Americans'... And Polling Is No Substitute for Democracy

Here’s the headline from the Washington Post that arrived in my email this week: “Most Americans say Biden has not accomplished much since taking office, Post-ABC poll finds” Upon

By Richard Lang

/ February 7, 2023

1,000 People Are Not 'Most Americans'... And Polling Is No Substitute for Democracy

Here We Go Again… Trapped in the 2-Year Election Cycle?

“And they’re off!” The date of the article is January 29, 2023. It has barely been 12 weeks since the 2022 mid-term election. And the article in the Washington

By Richard Lang

/ February 1, 2023

Here We Go Again… Trapped in the 2-Year Election Cycle?

Advisory Voting: What It Is and Why America Needs It

There is only one thing that can counter-balance the nefarious forces and entrenched special interests that have compromised our democracy and now threaten the very institutions that have defined our

By Richard Lang

/ February 19, 2019

Advisory Voting: What It Is and Why America Needs It

Don’t Blow It: An Open Letter to the Newly Elected Congress

Dear newly elected Congresspeople, Yes you, the newbies, the previously little-knowns, the everyday men and women who finally had enough, and who responded to the call of their communities and

By Richard Lang

/ November 14, 2018

Don’t Blow It: An Open Letter to the Newly Elected Congress

The One Strategy Dems Could Use to Stop Trump's SCOTUS Nomination No One Is Talking About

Donald Trump and his GOP have now set the Democrats up for another political whooping — this time over Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The Dems are predictably initiating

By Richard Lang

/ July 11, 2018

The One Strategy Dems Could Use to Stop Trump's SCOTUS Nomination No One Is Talking About

Liquid Democracy? Not So Fast

“Liquid Democracy” has entered the public discourse in the past couple of years, as a possible replacement for the system of government that we have come to know. Because it

By Richard Lang

/ June 27, 2018

The National Town Square: A Virtual Revolution That Will Change Our Democracy

We decide who we are, as a country, every day, and announce it to the world by both our words and our actions. We continually declare our values, our priorities,

By Richard Lang

/ March 12, 2018

The National Town Square: A Virtual Revolution That Will Change Our Democracy