The Dictators address America.

We used deep-fake technology to have controversial world leaders Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin issue a chilling message that outside interference isn’t necessary for democratic collapse—Americans are doing it to themselves.

Over two videos, Jong-un and Putin directly addressed the American public, pointing out the current state of America—basically thanking them for doing the job of destabilizing the country for them.

The videos aren’t real. But the threat is.

THE PROBLEM

Americans are more divided than ever, and it’s putting our very democracy at risk.

RepresentUS is a bi-partisan organization dedicated to fighting political corruption. Their research revealed that American politics have become increasingly polarized, less co-operative, less effective and more volatile. How do we use the 2020 election as the perfect flashpoint for how all these dangerous trends are putting the very nature of American democracy at risk?

INSIGHT

All it takes for democracy to fail, is for you to do nothing.

RepresentUs’s research revealed that Americans take their democracy for granted. And when considering threats to it, people default to foreign “bad actors”—Russia & China meddling in elections or fanning the flames of discord. But increasingly, the real threats to the US are internal. Growing partisanship & increased skepticism and apathy for anything and everything political in nature.

Democracy requires active participation for it to work.