Bradley Tusk

Either the chaos and dysfunction that we call Washington, D.C.

or totally one-sided governments, whether it's the state of Texas on the right or the city of San Francisco on the left.

And if we were truly hopelessly divided, if we just couldn't agree on any issue, that'd be one thing.

But we're not.

Most people agree on the solutions to most issues, whether it's education or health care or climate or taxes or ... Let's take guns as an example.

The vast majority of Americans would say that we should neither confiscate everyone's guns, but nor should it be easy to walk into a store and walk out with an assault rifle.

But the problem is, those Americans, the people in the center, the people in the middle, they don't vote in primaries.

So politicians ignore their views and cater only to the extremes.

And when the next school shooting happens, and it will happen, all of us are going to bang our heads against the wall and say, why can't our politicians just do the right thing for once?

Why?

I'll tell you why.

Because they're held hostage by the extremes.

They're stuck.

We have to free them from their clutches.

We have to make it possible for them to move back to the middle.

And the only way to do that is to get a lot more people voting, and the only way to do that is to meet the people where they are, on their phones.

About a decade or so ago, I helped run a lot of the campaigns around the US to legalize Uber.

And I know that now, when you guys think of Uber, it's this giant corporation, but back then, we were a tiny little tech startup, and taxi was this big, politically powerful industry who really didn't like us.

And we knew we couldn't out-muscle them, and so instead, we turned to the people.

And by making it possible for our customers to tell their elected officials, hey, I like this Uber thing, please leave it alone, we were able to mobilize millions of people through the app to advocate on our behalf.