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Chapter 1 | Setting The Stage

Ch 1.12 | 🗳️Plurality voting
The majority of elections in the United States are won by the candidate who simply wins the most votes. At face value, that seems like a simple system…
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Ch 1.11 | 🔐Closed partisan primaries = polarization and Disenfranchisement
The impact of our closed primary system is immense.
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Ch 1.10 | 💰Citizen's United = dark money
In the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v.
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Ch 1.9 | 👎The problems
Our political system has become the major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge our nation needs to address.
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Ch 1.8 | 🙇‍♀️ The United States is a flawed democracy
We, as Americans, pride ourselves on our exceptionalism.
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Ch 1.7 | 🗳️How the 'system' really works today
One of my go-to sources for information on the political industrial complex is a thought-provoking book entitled: "The Politics Industry: How Political…
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Ch 1.6 | Beware of political parties
Our first three presidents all advised the new nation about the danger of political parties.
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Ch 1.5 |⏳ It's time to act
Winston Churchill once said:
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Ch 1.4 | 🧫'Politics are downstream of culture'
If, as the Breitbart Doctrine suggests, “politics are downstream of culture" and, therefore, "to change politics one must first change culture," is it…
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Ch 1.3 | 🖖The majority of Americans are in the middle
Thankfully, today, the vast majority of the Americans remain in the middle!
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Ch 1.2 | 😀Quite simply, fairness matters
Our path forward as a nation requires that we send a resounding message to Washington that fairness matters! That proportional representation needs to…
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Ch 1.1 | Let’s have a conversation
What started as an email to a friend trying to explain why I was unwilling to discuss politics over drinks turned into a vision quest for me. Since…
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