We keep looking at the politicians who show up on our TV's and our phones, at the lawmakers who end up in Congress, and the general lack of solutions to our biggest problems, and we shake our head. We promise to vote the bums out. We vow to drain the swamp. We pledge to overturn the plutocracy.
But we don't think about our assembly line, the system that gives us the choices we are presented with.
Remember Lee Drutman's line: "Who chooses the choices?"
That's the right question. When we show up to the toy store, and don't like our choices, we're not asking who is making the decision to limit us to these options. We simply keep buying from their limited selection, hoping for a different outcome.
The point of Nick Troiano's new book, The Primary Solution, is that we have to change the way we choose our choices.
Nick Troiano is the executive director of Unite America, an advocacy group working for reforms to our political system. They want to see more people elected to government positions who put "people over party," in their words.
