Voter turnout rates are so low because there is no easy way to research candidates.
Few people run for political office because it's very hard to win without significant capital.
The Democrat and Republican parties control the channels that connect candidates with voters, effectively disallowing independents and third party candidates from winning.
Americans are conducting their national political discourse on global social media platforms that reward echo chambers.
Coffeehouse aims to become the platform for democracy, a place that makes it simple for the over 1.9 billion democratic citizens in our world to be civically active.