David Burstein has a simple dream. Fix American politics.

And, yes, he knows it's going to be tough. But rehabbing our sclerotic political system may be as simple as pressing rewind.

"In 1787," Burstein told PopTech 2014, "our founders came together, and they recruited the best and brightest minds they could possibly find to come together for a Constitutional Convention to figure out how to create a new system of governance, a new country that had never been seen before."

Burstein, the author of Fast Future, has written extensively about value shifts amongst his millennial cohort. And he believes young people need to shake up the political status quo.

How? Well, you start by making government a little more like Moneyball.

Burstein created Run for America, an organization devoted to recruiting new, talented candidates for office and using statistics to figure out which districts they can actually win in. That involves zeroing in on inexpensive media markets and districts with high numbers of young people. The new candidates will - according to Run for America - be on the ballot in 2016.

Ignoring political gridlock, Burstein says, is already having striking consequences. "In this election… there are actually three people who are convicted criminals who are running for election after coming out of jail. And all of them look like they're going to win. So in a system where our approval of the people in our institutions is so low, and we think they're corrupt and a bunch of crooks, it actually becomes a lot easier for someone who's actually a crook to get elected."

Listen to David Burstein talk about how millennials are different from the generations before them: