Democratism Blog

This is the archive of posts prior to the November 2016 election. While that debacle has shifted our focus for now, it only confirmed the importance of the issues that had been the themes here–democratic resource allocation and democracy beyond government. We'll be returning to them.

We Aren’t Too Polarized, Congress Is

Image by DonkeyHotey. Some rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Image by DonkeyHotey. Some rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

The United States has not become more ideologically polarized, after all, say political scientists Seth Hill and Chris Tausanovitch. That is, our elected representatives have, but we the people haven’t.

Our Democratist system won’t be hamstrung by bitter ideological divisions that don’t reflect our views.