It’s Election Day in the U.S. We have a tendency to assume democracy is the best system (or the worst except for all of the others).

But how did we ever even come up with representative democracy? Did it really start in Athens?

Why is voting the way we handle things…is it part of the way humans do hierarchies? The best option until we think of something better?

Let’s take a shallow dive – because there’s way too much here for a deep one!