Bradley Tusk

So let me ask you a question.

How many of you do your banking, your healthcare on your phones?

Right, of course you do.

How about your love life, your entertainment, travel planning, all that kind of stuff?

Right?

How many of you vote on your phones?

That's the problem.

So I spent the first 15 years of my career working in US government and politics.

City government, state government, federal government, you name it, I saw it from pretty much every angle.

And the main thing that I took away from it, really more than anything else, is why politicians make the decisions they make.

Is it based on what they believe in?

No.

Is it what's best for their city or their state or their country?

Not really.

How about what's best for their constituents specifically?

Not even that.

It's actually a lot simpler.

Virtually every politician makes every decision solely based on winning the next election and nothing else.

And that's true for the next election and then the next election after that.

And it's a problem in democracies all over the world, but it's especially pervasive in the United States because we have this corrupt practice known as gerrymandering.