Wouldn't it be interesting if:

Michelle Obama ran for president next time out?  Hillary Clinton is the presumed candidate for the next election but after her health scare there is some debate [and let's face it, the opposing party will use it with all the delicacy of a claw-hammer at a crab dinner] to deny her the opportunity.

Congress realized they might be in for some restructuring by the American voters and decided to get to work?

We taxed goods and services from other countries at a slightly higher rate than those from our own so that we might have some incentive to actually use those goods and services that are home-grown, there-by providing a two-fold benefit; one in a tax increase for broad-spectrum projects and the other to the in-country businesses?

They would put exercise cars on public transportation. A couple of cars of nothing but exer-bikes could conceivably be hooked up to auxiliary batteries to run the lights on the train, maybe?

We started having Town Hall Meetings here on the internet for local, state, and national...heck, maybe even international forums that picked one issue a month that would be discussed openly [provider TBA]. I realize this last suggestion might crash a server so it might require some modifications but really what I guess I'm proposing is not A discussion board but The discussion board. Some place everyone can go and say what they will about the subject proposed at that time. It could be called The Public Mind.