Summary

Americans want transformational change to our political system. The way we talk about that system and those changes can lead people to reach for democratic—or authoritarian—solutions.

This quick-start guide outlines findings from the FrameWorks Institute’s real-time research on:

1. how people are thinking about the political system;
2. challenges and opportunities this thinking poses to communicators; and
3. how we can talk about systems change to lead people toward democratic—and away from authoritarian—solutions.