Forward: notes on the future of our democracy

Introduction: Democracy by a thread --

A winding path to center stage --

Deciding to do the unreasonable thing --

The wing ding is stacked against me (or how we learn about candidates) --

Adventures in advertising and social media --

The reality show of running for president --

The eye of Sauron --

Power screws with your mind --

The end of the beginning --

Systems failure --

Death by bureaucracy --

The inhuman economy --

How we know what we know --

Your data whose data? --

Loyalty cuts both ways --

Watching the Watchmen --

Why not much passes --

The wave that wasn't --

Constructive institutionalism (or the priests of the decline) --

The human economy : making what we measure --

Rewiring democracy --

The rational public --

Speaking in facts --

The tax Mandalorian --

Grace and tolerance : humanity in action --

Choices, choices --

The forward party.