Our wisdom of the crowds project can be simply defined as being, "The potential of Crowd intelligence is vastly underultilized in our democratic system" One could argue to be truely democratic we should be harnessing the crowd intelligence or at least consulting this crowd for all major and important decisions. Using a system like the one built here demonstrates we don't need to spend tens of millions on referendums to get a democtratic answer to the common problems we face. Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

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