David Swann has appointed Mo Elsalhy the chairman of a committee that is supposed to report in one month on what the Alberta Liberal Party needs to do in terms of a renewal process.It's fun to see some of the ideas that I talked with David about at dinner being included in that process.  Specifically, it seems that whether or not you are a current member of the ALP is not a requirement for participating in that committee.  That's a good start.But if the objective is to end up with a political movement that can have a chance against the PCs in this province, Swann's process is not the only game in town.  There is also this secretive group, trying to create something new entirely.Which one of those efforts is better placed to succeed is still an open question, to me, but I'm inclined to believe that the ALP will have difficulty attracting enough new people to make the deep changes that would be necessary.In reality, neither of these efforts is going to work unless they can appeal to people who have previously voted PC.  How do you get people to do that?  Well, as I've said before, I think you have to avoid disagreeing with the PCs, and focus on being more important than they are.What is more important to people in Alberta than being Conservative (or Liberal)?One of the answers, I think, is populist democracy.I think an organization that lowered the barriers to equitable and meaningful participation in Alberta's politics to the floor, an organization that had few ideological shibboleths, an organization that made the experience of politics interesting again, could see success.Making sure regular Albertans have real power over their own government is more important, in my mind, than all the question of how government power should be used.  And I don't think I'm alone in that.I have some ideas on how to lower the barriers to participation.  What I'm not so clear on is how do you make the experience of politics interesting to people?What do you find interesting?  Why?