| What | - Stick to the Subject systemizes the electorate's participation in the democratic process. It brings ordinary people to the policy-making table through an organized process of independent study, face-to-face debate, and ranked-choice voting.
- It gets the participants' best thinking on policy solutions to problems in the realms of society, culture, technology, state, and the economy.
- Stick is a humanistic endeavor that uses "just enough" technology to support in-person discussion. It has no chat rooms, discussion forums, or presence in any type of social media. It sees artificial intelligence as a threat.
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| | Who | - Stick is an assembly of people from all points of view, backgrounds, experiences, situations, and visions for America. It has no ideological identity.
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| Where | - Discussion Society interactions are held only in-person and only at public locations.
| | | | How | - Stick's system has two interrelated operations: an in-person Discussion Society and its online Knowledge Base.
- Discussion Society members are surveyed for their top public policy concerns. They study them independently, discuss them at Conversation Sit-downs, and then vote on solutions using ranked choice voting.
- The Knowledge Base provides logistical support for the Conversation Sit-downs and information related to the subjects of discussion.
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| | When | - The Discussion Society operates during North Carolina's summer, fall, and spring academic terms. The Knowledge Base remains in continuous operation.
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