The democratic political systems in use in the 21st century are largely the product of 18th- and 19th-century assembly—frameworks designed in a world vastly different from the one they govern today.

To address this dissonance, political establishments around the globe have “patched” the systems currently in use for the better part of the last century—ineffectively addressing the needs of a quickly changing society worldwide by beating what is an increasingly dead horse. 

Thematism was designed to address this increasingly grave impediment to human progress, offering the boldest reassessment and extensive redesign of democratic political governance in centuries through the use of two primary elements: segmentation and competition.