Our Democracy Can’t Do What’s Needed

The paralysis of modern democracies is often blamed on polarized politics. But there are structural causes for paralysis as well. These structural defects predated and fostered extremism and must be fixed for democracy to work again.

Governing sensibly is impossible without a new operating framework activated by responsible humans.

The recent rejection of Sen. Joe Manchin’s bill to expedite energy and power projects illustrates two structural flaws: good government has sunk into bureaucratic quicksand; and modern government, rebuilt since the 1960s to avoid human error, is not capable of making the compromises and tradeoffs needed for human success.

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