In the peer-to-peer revolution, the most important elections will happen outside the voting booth. And the most important laws won't be written by lawmakers.

Consider this: The first time you hopped into a Lyft or an Uber, there was probably, at the very least, a legal gray area associated with that trip. And yet, in your bones, didn't you think that what you were doing was just, even if it wasn't yet clearly legal?

If you felt that way, I suspect you weren't alone.

Today, ridesharing apps are operating in most major cities around the country. And municipalities are having to play catch-up because the people have built massive constituencies around these new services.

This is just one example of what Princeton political scientist James C. Scott calls "Irish democracy," where people simply stop paying attention to some rule (or ruler) because it has outlived its usefulness.