Ameritocracy

The two-party system was broken, so Mia Rhodes created an alternative. But when you fight the system, the system fights back. After a lifetime of political disillusionment, Mia Rhodes created an alternative to the two-party system: Ameritocracy. Part American Idol, part Iowa Caucus, her online political competition will find the most popular independent candidate in America and give them a genuine shot to win the presidency. Anyone can run ... The American people vote online ... The winner receives instant fame and a campaign war chest to battle the Democrats and Republicans in 2020. But her project flounders until Mia catches the eye of eccentric tech billionaire Peter Colton. With Mia's vision and Peter's money, Ameritocracy ascends from punchline to possibility. As the site grows, the stakes rise crisis by crisis, and Mia must learn that ending politics as we know it means saying goodbye to the Mia Rhodes she has always known.

Mia Rhodes was on the verge of transforming American politics. But when you take on the establishment, the establishment pushes back. Six months ago, Mia Rhodes was a Seattle office manager, toiling away from nine to five and spending her weekends managing her online political competition, Ameritocracy. Now, that competition is spreading across the American political landscape, making Mia a celebrity and giving Ameritocracy a real shot at upending the two-party system in the 2020 election. But as the final voting draws near, Mia is betrayed by one of the people she trusts most, throwing Ameritocracy into disarray, and possibly ending her dream of changing American politics forever.

She set out to transform American democracy. Now she's afraid of what will happen if she succeeds. Mia Rhodes created Ameritocracy to make it possible for anyone to become president. But as her online political competition races toward its finale, it's poised to elect a Machiavellian manipulator with a winning smile, leaving Mia to wonder whether she's changed anything at all. As the competition builds to its spectacular final debate in Washington, DC, Mia and her team must question everything they've done so far, and defeat a threat to democracy they had never imagined.