[bombcar]

Great, just have the neutral 3rd parties do the decisions.

If you have those, you have everything! But "getting those" is the whole problem.

[kwatsonafter]

Just chiming in to say that I concur with your reply here; this article seems to be missing the fundamental point which is, "when/where do experts capable of avid citizenship come from?"

It's worth noting that this can be reduced to, "how can you make the public more well informed and capable of mediating and governing itself?"