Bradley Tusk

And what that allows the two political parties to do is divvy up all the legislative districts so that as a result, the only election that ever really matters is the party primary.

Now, we had a big election last fall.

You guys might have heard something about it.

And in that election, about two-thirds of Americans voted, but that was for precedent.

I live in New York City.

In 2023, we had city council primaries.

Turnout was 7.2 percent.

So I don't know if you guys have ever been to New York, but if you have, you will know we are not a shy people.

And yet, in this city of 8.5 million highly opinionated people,

you could win a council seat with just 8,000 votes.

And the same thing is true in state legislative races, congressional, mayoral, you name it, and it's true everywhere.

So who are those voters?

They're typically the far right or the far left or special interests that know how to move money and votes in low-turnout elections.

they dictate not only who wins office, but then what happens once they're in office.

And that gets us one of two types of government.

Either the chaos and dysfunction that we call Washington, D.C.

or totally one-sided governments, whether it's the state of Texas on the right or the city of San Francisco on the left.

And if we were truly hopelessly divided, if we just couldn't agree on any issue, that'd be one thing.

But we're not.

Most people agree on the solutions to most issues, whether it's education or health care or climate or taxes or ... Let's take guns as an example.