For more than 20 years, Rackspace Technology has blazed a trail of innovation,

we're passionate about customer service excellence, and our ability to advise, transform, manage, and optimize solutions for any cloud, wherever you are in your cloud journey.

And because you need a cloud solutions partner who can deliver outcomes every day, we're fueled by our unwavering focus.

Customer first, cloud first. At Rackspace Technology, we drive better business outcomes with multi-cloud, data, application, and security solutions

designed to deliver your future faster. Learn more today at Rackspace.com.

This podcast is brought to you by Dash Hudson. Last year, the average Americans spent over 1300 hours on social media.

That's a lot of content for our eyeballs, and a lot of competition for brands, which is why top companies are partnering with Dash Hudson.

Dash Hudson is a social marketing software that helps brands deliver the best content for maximum impact on social. Their new competitive insight function helps you deeply understand your consumers and your competitors.

Learn how at dashhudson.com slash podcast.

Just how worried should we be about the future of American democracy?

I'm Zach Beechim, and I write for Vox about democracy liberalism in the political right. And this week, I'm your host for Vox Conversations.

The Sun's certainty about what's in store for the future of US democracy is the question at the heart of our Vox Conversations 2 Part Special.

Recently, I published a feature called How Does This End on the Long-Term Prognosis of America's Political System that kicked up quite a bit of conversation.

In the piece, I argued that the American democratic system was breaking down, creating greater risks for violence, and a slide out of democracy altogether.

And the worst part is that all the best ideas for fixing things seem unlikely to happen at best.

So, the future for democracy is not looking bright in the United States.

In this two-part special, I wanted to spotlight two voices in the discussion who have unique and interesting thoughts on the key issues at stake.

This week, part two in the special, I'm talking to Lee Drummond, a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at the New America Think Deck.

In his book Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, Lee argues, surprise surprise, that the two-party system is at the heart of America's current democratic crisis.

So to fix things, he argues for completely restructuring the way America's congressional elections work.

The idea is that if you change the elections, maybe we can enable the rise of a multi-party system.

Now, I cited Lee's proposal in my feature as an example of the sort of reform we should be thinking about if we want to preserve American democracy.

...