1/ I find myself thinking a lot about this tweet and what it really means to have a pro-democratic MOVEMENT in the United States. If we were to truly start such a movement, would would be its precepts? What would be its assumptions?
https://twitter.com/NelStamp/status/1328851533979586568
2/ An obvious one, to me at least, would be that the United States is not a democracy in some important and fundamental ways, and that if we would like it to be one we may have to consider a change to the Constitutional order.
3/ Another, related one, is that the technologies of our democracy may need to be reconsidered. This includes the "stack" of mechanisms that make up a democracy- the information ecosystem, and the means by which citizens come to consensus on key questions. How/when they "vote".
4/ I fear this is an urgent situation. I see a moment coming where authoritarian government is embraced and democracy is regarded as a morally repugnant form of governance because of its inability to produce an appropriate response to existential challenges like climate change.
5/ Maybe we have 10 or 20 years, tops.
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