Danielle Allen at Persuasion:
One side fears the shredding of safety nets, federal programs, and commitments to inclusion and honest history. The other side fears the destruction of traditional family mores, religion, and parental control.
Every two years, Americans spend an average of $15 billion on campaign advertising trying to fend off the wolves attacking them. But we just end up changing which wolves are briefly ascendant.
Maybe we could fend off those wolves once and for all—if we could just get our foot out of that dang trap.
But what’s the trap?
The trap is an electoral system that has been captured by party processes gone wrong.
More here.
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