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We have failed to value public displays of civic trust and stewardship, abandoning physical presence w/ our neighbors in favor of abstractions and convenience. The result is electoral chaos, diminishing trust and a nightmarish inversion of public presence: mob riots. https://twitter.com/TaraAnnThieke/status/1323649824017833984
Even if the motivations were not insidious the reasoning and results are a sad reflection on our society: throwing band-aids (or grenades) at complex problems with absolutely no interest, concern, or willingness to accept responsibility when things blow up.
The secret ballot, cast on one day, was the best thing about our voting system. To have thrown it away so cavalierly (self-righteously even!) is related to the diminishing of other sacred trusts: doctor-patient privilege, journalist protection of sources, church sanctuaries
We are leaving nothing outside of an algorithm designed to tell us how to feel, what is easiest, safest, most convenient. One day something you love will be counted expendable too, and because we have sacrificed principle and integrity every single time it too will be devoured.
