Bradley Tusk: Every Decision Our Politicians Make Is Self-Serving -- And Partisan Primaries Make It Worse

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Published: 10 Sep, 2024
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Veterans for All Voters hosted a recent virtual discussion with Tusk Ventures Founder and CEO Badley Tusk as part of the group's ongoing Reformation Series.

Tusk not only talks about his new book on mobile voting titled, "Vote with Your Phone," but the 10 rules to demystifying US politics.

The most important rule:

Every politician makes decisions based on their own desires to stay in power. And the reason this is getting worse is because the US election system incentives it.  

Particularly, partisan primaries that decide most elections in the US, but have extremely low turnout. Here is Veterans for All Voters' description of the conversation:

"Todd sat down with Bradley Tusk, philanthropist, venture capitalist, political strategist, and recent author of "Vote with Your Phone" coming out September 17th - Pre-order the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Vote-Your-Phon... In this conversation, Bradley shares his political insights having served in a number of roles including Deputy Governor of Illinois and NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's campaign manager, about how it's ultimately the incentives, not the politicians themselves, that drive behavior among elected officials. In this spirit, he sees immense potential for mobile voting to bring more people into the process to then get better politics and policies for all Americans."

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