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Why Silicon Valley Should Create the 'Smart' Party

If tech can make toilets smart, why can’t it create a political party sensible people can love?
If tech can make toilets smart, why can't it create a political party sensible people can love? If Silicon Valley created the iParty, lobbyists and donors and interest groups wouldn't set the agenda—the data would.
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Dear Silicon Valley:

Please disrupt the ever-lovin’ crap out of America’s political parties.

This is the moment. You’ll never have more pent-up demand. Come out with a new mobile-social-cloud data-driven customer-focused centrist political party right now, and you’ll get sign-ups faster than when Uber sucked all those customers out of the taxi industry the past few years. It’ll be like unveiling the iPhone in 2007. People will line up down the block, wondering why it took so long for something so craved by so many to arrive.

Name the party something that will appeal to the digital demographic. Call it the Jedi Party, or Hogwarts Party or iParty. Or take your cue from Iceland and form a Party. Name it whatever gets the biggest young generation in history

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