In the depths of democratic despair, I seem to have created the start of my own curriculum: Civics 101.
While reading the Constitution, I was trolling around the Internet and found the following: They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, by Harvard law professor, Lawrence Lessig. His arguments are myriad, but at the core, Lessig argues that what we need to save our democracy right now are widespread reforms – from a reformed Electoral College to ending partisan gerrymandering -- that will empower us as citizens to become “more politically informed and engaged.”
While no August beach read, Lessig’s book and the combination of reading the Constitution and volunteering for the Biden campaign has made me feel, at very least, that I am no longer complacent nor a passive bystander, watching helplessly as the ship simply goes down.