Why is it so hard to get people to see what’s so obvious to you?  You explain it clearly. You’ve described the problem, established the urgency, and shown how people are being affected. You’ve even laid out what needs to happen next. But some people still just aren’t getting it — or they’re getting stuck on everything except the point.

When discussions go sideways, it’s usually not because your idea is unclear — it’s because people dodge your main points. They change the subject, resort to whataboutism, put words in your mouth, accuse you of bad motives, or attack you with labels and semantics. Your point gets buried underneath all of it.

Ask Justina calls out all that nonsense for you and puts a hard stop to it. Bring the same discussions into this system and the usual tricks stop jamming you up — no dodging, no deflecting, no semantic games. What’s left is your point, laid out clearly, with no way for it to be twisted or ignored. Think of all the problems you could help solve if you could just shut off the noise and get people to actually listen.

But most of these discussions aren’t happening here yet. They’re still spinning in circles on forums built for outrage and entertainment — anything but solving problems. Meanwhile, issues like affordability, losing jobs to AI and automation, ever-rising healthcare costs, heightened political violence, and increasing executive overreach keep piling up, while people with good ideas keep getting ignored. As long as discussions keep spinning in circles, there’s no way to turn good ideas into shared direction — and without shared direction, there's nothing to enforce.

What we need is a shared and enforceable roadmap with clear objectives, expectations, and even timelines. A roadmap would put us on the same path and give us confidence that the issues we care about will be addressed. We could stop thinking in terms of either we get what we want or they get what they want, because we’d be able to trust that everyone’s concerns are being taken into consideration. Arguing in circles makes it impossible to create that shared roadmap. Instead of building toward something collectively, we all end up pulling in different directions, with no shared sense of progress and no reason to trust that our issues will ever be taken seriously.

And most importantly, a shared roadmap becomes a mandate — a measuring stick leaders can’t ignore. It turns vague promises into clear expectations and gives the public a concrete way to see whether progress is actually being made. There’s no more accepting excuses or justifying unacceptable outcomes with “as long as I get this thing.” That mindset is exactly what allows leaders to act unchecked and ignore most problems. A shared roadmap replaces it with something stronger: “This is what we all agreed on” — not because everyone wants everything on the list, but because what each of us cares about most is on it, and nothing on it is unacceptable..

How does Ask Justina™ create our shared roadmap?

Ask Justina builds that roadmap by separating the things public debate constantly blends together. Instead of letting everything collapse into one endless argument, the system breaks discussion into a few simple pieces that can be voted on, compared, and improved.

• Objectives (Ideals): what “success” looks like — the outcomes we want to move toward.
• Proposals (Ideas): different approaches people believe could achieve those objectives.
• Actions: the concrete steps required to carry out a proposal.
• Principles: non-negotiable limits — actions that cross them get rejected, even if the goal sounds good.

Once those pieces are separated, people can’t “win” by dodging. The system forces people to deal with the substance: what the objective is, whether the proposal actually gets us there, and whether the actions violate rules we’ve agreed are off-limits. Ideas that aren’t linked to clear objectives are just pointless activities. Ideas that aren’t deconstructed into actions are just wishful thinking. And actions can only be challenged through shared principles — so it’s not just one preference versus another.

Over time, votes and feedback do what circular arguing never can: they narrow uncertainty. The strongest objectives rise, weak proposals lose support, actions get refined, and principles keep the roadmap from sliding into “anything goes.” That’s how the roadmap becomes clear enough to function as a mandate — and clear enough to hold leaders accountable.

Your role stays simple: bring your perspective. Vote, propose, and respond. Ask Justina keeps the structure consistent so we end up with a roadmap we can actually use.

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