A few blogs back I summarized the evidence that the majority of concerned Americans no longer consider their government legitimate. After 230 years of struggling to make our country work, most of us have given up. We are angry and disappointed and clueless about to do.
The problem is that Americans (and most other people living in a democracy) don't really know what they want, they just know what they have is not working the way it should.
The two overriding expressed citizen concerns are: corruption, meaning too many self-interest groups (unions, trial lawyers, Hollywood types and big businesses) have excessive influence on legislators and Congress never sounds like it understands ordinary real people.
The answer is a U.S. House and lower houses of state legislatures selected, like juries, from a list of ordinary citizens. Random samples of real people would be selected to serve three year terms as legislators. Corruption would be virtually non-existent because only a few ordinary people could be bought, especially if they were serving at the pay level of current legislators.
Trust in government would slowly return as the people recognized the legislatures as a reflection of themselves.
That is the answer. I wrote an article about it in the mid 1970s and a book in 1984. Will I live to see it happen?