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In the US, voters can register to vote in elections as an "independent," as opposed to a Republican or Democrat. Of course, there's little practical reason to go independent, because the two parties have had a stranglehold on US politics since the era of Civil War reconstruction. Yet as Independent Center senior advisor Adam Brandon , AI could be just the tool to shake things up.
Since the campaign for Proposition 50 began, seven new Republican states have launched gerrymandering efforts of their own, and a growing number of Democratic states aren't far behind. With the gerrymandering wars now fully underway, American politics has entered a new, dangerously antidemocratic era: The party that controls Congress for the rest of the 2020s will likely be determined by whichever one manipulates district lines more effectively.
The global economy is getting a hardware refit and trying out a new operating system-in effect, a full reboot, the likes of which we have not seen in nearly a century. To understand why this is happening and what it means, we need to abandon any illusion that the worldwide turn toward right-wing populism and economic nationalism is merely a temporary error, and that everything will eventually snap back to the relatively benign world of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
