The Verge Harris endorsement

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles - The Verge

the radical founding principle of the United States of America is the idea that the government’s authority to make laws and solve collective action problems comes from the consent of the governed. A clean rewrite, replacing centuries of architectural debt with what was, at the time, a cutting-edge foundation mostly unproven at scale. We vote for our leaders, they are given the power to tell us all what to do so that we might help each other reach better outcomes and be happier, and if they are bad at their jobs, we can simply throw the bums out. We open-sourced the authority, in other words. It was a big bet, and so far, it’s paid off.

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This might be the smartest and well written endorsement I have ever read. The Verge, led by Nilay Patel, does such good work on tech and more importantly tech policy and to see this made me smile. It’s nice when a publication does not treat their readers as morons and that is where The Verge thrives.

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