Throwback Monday: Does Democracy Need a Rebrand? | AJ Jacobs

Election Day was more like a festival. There were parades, farmers markets, music, rum, a lot of rum punch, and cakes. People would bake Election cakes, they were called. And they would bring them to the polls and share with neighbors. And I said, This is such a lovely Tradition. Let's try to restart it. That is the voice of A.J. Jacobs, an experimenter, researcher, writer, and generally

Just a curious person. And he is urging Americans to make election day fun again. Like the way they did when the nation was young. Election day back then was a party and people were making sure that they celebrated the fact that they got to vote. For the people who were going to govern them, which was new and a novel idea back in those days. And one way that AJ would like to bring back this festive feeling?

Is for all of us to bake an election cake. Or pie, doesn't matter, right? Cake or pie. And share it with your fellow Americans at a poll. on election day. Let's do start that not actually let's start, let's restart that tradition. I think that would be fantastic. Now

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