Want to feel old? The @TheWebbyAwards are celebrating their 25th year. The Webby anniversary theme is “overwrite tomorrow”—to spur thinking on what in our society we need to overwrite. Here’s one thing: let’s stop overwriting political infrastructure, and build long-term instead.
Campaigns and viral moments come and go. Institutions and people endure. So over these next 25 years, let’s invest in institutions and people. Let’s invest in institutions and people who can lift up and energize campaigns, undergird movements, and shape moments.
The cultures and business models of our institutions shape the outcomes they produce and the the people they touch. And the values and mindsets of the people within them shape our institutions. Let’s focus on those.
State and national political parties are an example: building well-managed, well-resourced, nimble, transparent, and anti-racist party institutions creates a context where great candidates & operatives can rise.
But parties often fall off the map of public consciousness shortly after a major election. Not this time. Let’s overwrite the urge to overwrite—and commit to the patient and urgently necessary work of building infrastructure that reflects our values.
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