Two variations-on-a-theme:

The first comes from our own Clarke & Dawe. Corey Doctorow reminded me of this earlier in the week.

The debt crisis in 2010

 

The second comes from US Senator Elizabeth Warren [ @SenWarren ] speaking at the Re/code conference this past Tuesday.  During a question and answer session, a voter asked why politicians aren’t building infrastructure or implementing other policy that respects the will of the people.

Her succinct response and treatise on democratic representation and public policy stasis…

Washington and Representation

Perhaps Nick Hanauer [ @NickHanauer ] was really on to something?

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